Wright — Notes on Clemmys. 57 



X. V., we occasionally find it in mucky peaty ponds. But in the sphag- 

 num pockets and marly ponds across the State it is the common form. In 

 the Junius marl ponds we frequently take it in the ponds, in connecting 

 streams and in the sphagnum. At Bergen, N. Y., it is also recorded as 

 at Westbury and Spring Lake, N. Y. 



In this later region ahove Port Byron, N. Y., the species is abundant 

 in every pond or swampy place in wet woods if the soil he of the black 

 muck type. In the sphagnum bogs they were frequently captured on the 

 tup of the sphagnum where their diggings look like a little pile of finely 

 broken dead sphagnum which is brown in comparison to the green sur- 

 rounding it. The query naturally arises as to whether or not the species 

 lays in these brown piles of sphagnum. We have secured many of them 

 on these piles or near them in late May and in June while orchid hunt- 

 ing. Sometimes the head and front half of the body would be buried in 

 the sphagnum. 



