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Graptemys geographica LeSeur. 



MAP TURTLE. 

 Rare. My first record was based on a poorly preserved specimen found 

 in a lot of material collected by Prof. O. C. Charlton. Afterwards I 

 captured two specimens in the North Bosque River. 



Terrapene ornata Agass. 



PAINTED BOX TORTOISE. 



Very common on the flats west of the city of Waco. At one time I 

 had three specimens of this species and made it a rule to feed them 

 regularly at the same hour each day. Finally I turned them loose in my 

 back yard and every evening about six o'clock they would come to me to 

 be fed. It was laughable to watch them as they stood on their hind legs, 

 scratching at my shoes and the bottom of my trousers in their endeavor to 

 attract my attention. I fed them on raw beef cut into strips, and as soon 

 as their appetites were satisfied they would go back to their quarters 

 under the coal shed and I would not see them again until about the same 

 time the next evening. The natural diet of this species consists of vege- 

 table matter and earthworms. 



Chelydra serpentina Linn. 



SNAPPING TURTLE. 

 Tolerably common in the Brazos and Bosque Rivers. 



Kinosternon flavescens Agass. 



YELLOW MUD TURTLE. 



I have only collected two examples of this species in McLennan County. 

 One of these was found half buried in the mud of a small prairie sink, 

 the other was captured on the dam at Day's Lake. 



Kinosternon Iouisianae Baur. 



LOUISIANA MUD TURTLE. 



This species is abundant in the lagoons and streams. In 1893 I wit- 

 nessed a migration of these turtles at Dry Pond. The marsh was rapidly 

 drying up, and as I walked along the levee I counted 45 specimens all 

 1 leaded in the same direction. At first I thought that they were merely 

 changing their quarters to the ditch along the railroad track only about 

 200 yards away, but found that there was very little water there, and that 

 turtles were scattered all over the damp meadow on the other side. I fol- 

 lowed the line of march and discovered that they were headed for a large 

 tank over half a mile from Dry Pond. 



Aromochelys tristycha Agass. 



TEXAS MUSK TURTLE. 



This turtle is rare in the neighborhood of AVaco, but very common at 

 Laguna Lake. 



Aspidonectes emoryi Baird and Girard. 



EMORY'S SOFT-SHELL TURTLE. 

 This fine soft-shell turtle is abundant in the Brazos ami Bosque Rivers. 



