the coast. One of the seamen on the ship brought them into 

 the Charleston Market where Dr. Miles purchased them and pre- 

 sented them to the Museum with the proviso that they should not 

 be released to harry our birds. The Duck Hawk has a sad repu- 

 tation as a disturber of the peace in the bird world. Otherwise 

 the increasing rarity of this species in South CaroHna would be a 

 matter for deeper regret. 



The Museum is gathering material for a collection of Indian 

 remains found in South CaroHna, and will be glad to receive 

 either gifts or deposits of anything suitable for such an exhibit. 

 Information relative to burial mounds or localities where relics 

 have been discovered will be most welcome. Implements of all 

 kinds and particularly fragments of pottery and human skele- 

 tons, and large stone mortars are greatly desired. 



The Museum records with sorrow the death of its oldest perma- 

 nent resident, Cistudo Carolina, better known as the Common 

 Box Turtle. Cistudo joined the Museum staff in November, 1909, 

 and departed this Ufe in October, 1911, at the age of seventy-one 

 recorded years plus an indefinite number of years unknown. His 

 original home was in a swamp near Cross Hill, Laurens County, 

 South Carolina, where he was first discovered by Mr. David 

 Whiteford in 1840. Mr. Whiteford carved his initials and the 

 date, 1840, on Cistudo's plastron and returned him to his native 

 haunts. Nothingmore was heard of Cistudo until 1905. A second 

 time he was released, but when captured for the third time in 

 May, 1909, Mr. Whiteford, then nearly ninety years old, decided 

 that a turtle of such a venerable age should acliieve a more than 

 local reputation and consequently Cistudo came ' to Hve at the 

 Museum, where hundreds of people have watched him placidly 

 feeding on fish. More often visitors have been rewarded with 

 sight of his shell only as Cistudo belongs to a family much given 

 to withdrawing into its shell, in which case the shell literally closes 

 up like a box — hence the name Box Turtle. 



This turtle was brought to the Museum by Mr. B. A. Wharton 

 of Cross Hill. Affidavits of its history are in the possession of 

 Mr. A. W. Love, Secretary of the South CaroUna Agricultural and 

 Mechanical Society, Columbia, S. C. 



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