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mountain tortoise1879
leopard-tortoise1880
1880 Cassell's Nat. Hist. IV. 252 The Ethiopian region of natural history has the greatest number of species of Tortoises, and the Leopard Tortoise (Testudo pardalis),..and the little Geometric Tortoise are familiar examples.