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and often including Emys blandingii, ate released in the spring each year. 

 This ought to explain the recovery of Blanding's turtle at Westerville." 



Wood reports that two large adults were found in the Dayton area in 1944. 

 These also had probably been liberated bv someone. At lea^t one biological 

 supply company makes a practice of selling specimens of E7nys blandingii to 

 schools, colleges, and research centers in all parts of the country. 



Ehrhart states that the specimen from Defiance County was taken "in a 

 muskrat den above the water line." 



Terrapene Carolina Carolina (Linnaeas) 

 Eastern Box Turtle 



(Page 136; maps 33 and 71; plate 17, fig. 1 and plate 18, figs. 5 and 6) 



Herpetologists are now generally agreed that all of the box turtles of the 

 eastern United States are races of the same species, hence the use of a trinomial 

 for the Ohio population. At least two of the other subspecies, triunguis and 

 bauri, are known to intergrade with Carolina. New Ohio records are: 



Adams County: Manchester (SL 416); 3J/2 mi. W of Rome (WED 265). 

 Athens County: Sec. 23, Canaan Twp. (OUVC 2449). Brown County: Ash 

 Ridge (UMMZ 84329) ; 1 mi. SW of Georgetown (WED 374) ; 3 mi. SE of Macon 

 (WED 264). Butler County: Reily (GF). Greene County: Bryan State Park 

 (DPLM 111.42). Highland County: 12 mi. W of Hillsboro (SL 386). Hocking 

 County: "Neotoma," Good Hope Twp. (OSM 734; SL 779); 1 mi. SE of South 

 Bloomingville (WED 338). Jackson County: Jackson (OUVC 564-6, 1382-3). 

 Logan County: 2 mi. NE of West Liberty (OSM 719). Montgomery County: 

 Germantown Dam, German Twp. (Wood and Duellman, 1947b) ; Hills and Dales 

 Park. Van Buren Twp. (Wood and Duellman, 1947b); Northridge (DPLM 473.44); 

 Harrison Twp. (Wood and Duellman, 1947b). PiKE CoUNTY: l'/2 mi. S of Nipgen, 

 Benton Twp. (OSM 720). ScioTo County: Buena Vista (WED 266). Vinton 

 County: Near Oretcn (OSM 841). Warren County: Lebanon (UC). 



In addition to the above, the Cleveland Museum has a box turtle (CMNH 

 168) from the "Cleveland Region," and Dexter (1948) has reported upon a 

 male Terrapene that was found near Twin Lakes, Portage County. These 

 two specimens are of special interest in view of my comment (page 137) that 

 "this turtle does not occur naturally in northeastern Ohio." 



For additional infonnation on this subject I have appealed to Mattlin, 

 who, in his capacity as curator of reptiles at the Cleveland Zoo, is the constant 

 recipient of specimens collected in the northeastern counties. He states, "Th= 

 fact that box turtles are intentionally or fortuitously released is graphically 

 illustrated by the fact that I have received one three-toed box turtle and one 

 Baur's box turtle, both of which were collected in the Cleveland area. I know 

 that numerous common box turtles are being released in the Cleveland Metro- 

 politan Parks every year, and it is possible that the species may become indige- 

 nous to this section in years to come. To date I can find nothing to indicate 

 that the common box turtle is breeding in northeastern Ohio. Your original 

 statement in the Reptiles of Ohio still holds true." 



Substantiating Mattlin's comments is the fact that staff members of the 

 Cleveland Museum, who have done extensive field work in the northeastern 



