Painted tortoise shedding scales.

 

August 19.


See painted tortoise shedding scales, half off and loose.


H. D. Thoreau, Journal,  August 19, 1855


Painted tortoise shedding scales. See August 31, 1856 ("A painted tortoise shedding its scales"); September 15, 1855 ("See many painted tortoise scales being shed, half erect on their backs. "); September 22, 1855 (" Many tortoise-scales about the river now. "); October 12, 1855 ("Is not this the only way they get rid of the moss, etc., which adhere to them?") See also A Book of the Seasons:  the Painted Turtle (Emys picta)

August 19. See A Book of the Seasons,  by Henry Thoreau, August 19

A Book of the Seasons,  by Henry Thoreau

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