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very slightly longer than the left, but when compressed together there 

 is no difference, each one being 13 nrni. in length. The two oesophagi 

 unite in a common gullet just back of the point of union. In all other 

 respects the specimen is a typical young form of H. platyrhinus. 



b. A small two-headed garter snake was taken on a farm southwest 

 of Russellville, Putnam county, and was kept in alcohol for several 

 years. It was reported to me by several parties who had seen it, but 

 was thrown out on account of decay, due to loss of alcohol, several 

 weeks before I visited the place. The heads were said to unite about 

 two inches back of the rostral plate, each having a small portion of the 

 body between it and the point of union. 



c. In June, 1893, a friend reported to me that his son had killed a 

 two-headed snake in a woods pasture near Terre Haute. In company 

 with the boy I visited the spot the next day, but found that the buz- 

 zards had been ahead of me and that only a small portion of the body 

 was left. It was a house or milk snake, Ophiholus doUatus triangulus 

 (Boie), and, judging from the fragments and the account of the boy, 

 had been about two and a half feet in length. He said that the heads 

 forked five or six inches back from the front extremity of the body. 



d. In the Indianapolis News of July 19, 1893, John CoUett, ex-State 

 Geologist of Indiana, mentions a "double-headed garter snake as 

 having been taken west of the Wabash river in Vermillion county a 

 few years previously. ' ' 



Two-headed Turtle. — On May 1, 1892, John Tiley, a coal operator, 

 found, near Waterman, in the southwest corner of Fountain county, 

 Indiana, a two-headed turtle. It was presented to Dr. George T. 

 De Verter, who kept it for more than a year, when by accident it was 

 drowned. It was presented in alcohol to Prof. John Collett, of Indiana- 

 polis, and, according to the Indianapolis News of July 19, 1893, had 

 "nothing to distinguish it from the ordinary little river turtle that 

 sits with a row of fellows on a log and plunks into the water when you 

 creep up with designs upon its freedom. Its back appears a little 

 broader than usual to give it neck room. The heads are not joined and 

 do not interfere with each other's independence. Each has its little 

 sack to retreat into in time of danger. Each has two fully developed 

 eyes, a complete and efficacious mouth and a full throat which is 

 beautifully striped in black and yellow lines. Each has a little stripe 

 of red retreating from each eye, and the heads are twins in size. Either 

 head would have been good enough to serve a turtle of ordinary ambi- 

 tion. ' ' 



The News published a crude drawing of the turtle, and from it and the 

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