Vol. XXII, pp. 129-138 June 25, 1909 



PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON 



SOME NOTES ON THE ZOOLOGY OF LAKE ELLIS, 



CRAVEN COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, WITH 



SPECIAL REFERENCE TO HERPETOLOGY. 



BY C. S. BRIMLEY. 



The writer in company with some of his friends spent about 

 a week in the vicinity of Lake Ellis, Craven County, N. C, in 

 late June, 1905, about two weeks in early May, 1906, and nearly 

 a week each, in late May of 1907 and 1908. On all of these 

 occasions he made observations on and collected specimens of 

 the reptiles and liatrachians he came across. 



Mr. H. H. Brimley, Curator of the North Carolina State Mu- 

 seum at Raleigh, headed the party in 1905, 1906, and 1908, 

 but was absent in 1907, in which year the party was headed 

 by Mr. Franklin Sherman, Entomologist to the North Carolina 

 Department of Agriculture, who was also one of the party in 

 1905 and 1908. Mr. R. S. Woglum, at that time acting ento- 

 mologist in Mr. Sherman's place, was one of the party in 1906. 



During our stays there we lived in Camp Bryan, a three- 

 room Inmting camp, the use of which together with other privi- 

 leges was generously granted by Mr. G. A. Nicoll of Newberne. 



Lake Ellis is a shallow body of water in Craven County, situ- 

 ated some five or six miles west of Havelock, a station on the 

 Norfolk and Southern railroad. It is between one and two miles 

 in width and breadth, its limits being somewhat indefinite 

 owing to its shallowness and the amount of surrounding marsh 

 which may or may not be actually included in the lake, at dif- 

 ferent lieights of water. Running east and west through the 

 lake is the " north canal," the banks of which are wholly sub- 

 merged for at least half the distance, and which in its lower 

 portion receives the water of the lake from a ditch entering 

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