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pearance hasten to devour them; whilst those that have escaped their terrestrial persecutors by getting into the sea, have to encounter a host of voracious fishes and legions of ambushed crocodiles."[1]
Genus Chelone. (Brongn.)
If we consider the Green Turtle, the Loggerhead, and the Hawksbill, as constituting but so
HEAD OF GREEN TURTLE.
many species of a single genus, the characters of that genus will be the same as those already
- ↑ Penny Cyclop., xxv. 76.
