Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences . Figure 47.—Green Turtle. Figure 48.—Hawksbill. In the West Indies adult turtles, not of the largest size, will laythree or four lots of eggs, or sometimes five, at intervals of 14 or , with about 75 to 200 eggs in each lot, making a new nest eachtime. The total number might, therefore, be 500 to 1000. Thusthe number of eggs, mentioned by Strachy as contained in thoselarge turtles, may not have been exaggerated. The eggs hatch insix to eight weeks, according to the temperature, and the young taketo the water at once.* The Gre

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Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences . Figure 47.—Green Turtle. Figure 48.—Hawksbill. In the West Indies adult turtles, not of the largest size, will laythree or four lots of eggs, or sometimes five, at intervals of 14 or , with about 75 to 200 eggs in each lot, making a new nest eachtime. The total number might, therefore, be 500 to 1000. Thusthe number of eggs, mentioned by Strachy as contained in thoselarge turtles, may not have been exaggerated. The eggs hatch insix to eight weeks, according to the temperature, and the young taketo the water at once.* The Green Turtle is peculiar in feeding chiefly on a vegetablediet, while the others are partly or mainly carnivorous. This speciesis particularly fond of the roots and crown or base of the turtlegrass or eel-grass {Zostera marina), -which grows in shallow water;but it will also eat various succulent sea-weeds,f and does not objectto a certain amount of animal food. In confinement they will eatfish of any kind. They have now become rather shy and wary, so that

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