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Oistudo ornate, Ag. : Western Box-tortoise. — This little land tortoise is so abundant 



in some sections of southern Kansas, (e.g., Harper and Barber counties,) as to amount 

 to a nuisance as a cumbererof the ground. 



It will probably have to be reduced to the rank of a variety, under C Carolinensis, 

 Linn. (= ( '. clausa, * un.) 



Chrysemys Belli, Gray: Bell's Tortoise. — Although this species, under the name of 

 Chrysemys Oregonensis, was included in my "Preliminary Catalogue of Kansas Reptiles 

 and Batrachians," (Transac. Kas. Acad. Sci., Vol. VII, 1881,) on theground of its known 

 general distribution, 1 was then unable to present any actual record of its occurrence 

 within the State. I now find it to be the common Chrysemys of the streams in Shawnee 

 county. It has also been submitted from Neosho Falls by Col. N. S. Goss, and I have 

 taken it in Lake Farland, McPherson county. Through the kindness of Prof. Popenoe, 

 of the State Agricultural College, I have also been able to examine specimens collected 

 in the vicinity of Manhattan. In Dr. Yarrow's "Check-list of North-American Rep- 

 tilia and Batrachia," I find the species recorded from the Republican river. 



Chrysemys pirta, llerm.: Painted Tortoise. — It now appears that the C. Bellii re- 

 corded by Agassiz (Contrib. Nat. Hist. U. S.) as abundant in western Missouri, and so 

 (pioted in the "Preliminary Catalogue" under the name C. picta, was probably the pre- 

 ceding species. But among the specimens from Neosho Falls, Kansas, submitted by Col. 

 Goss, is one of the true C. picta, enabling me to retain the species as an undoubted mem- 

 ber of the Kansas fauna. 



McUacoclemmys Le Sueuri, Gray: Le Sueur's Map Turtle. — This is a common species 

 in the Kansas river at Topeka. I have seen also, by favor of Prof. Popenoe, a specimen 

 collected near Manhattan, and the species occurs in the collection from Neosho Falls 

 from Col. N. S. Goss. 



Pseudemys elegans, Pr. Max. Wied. : Red-Eared Terrapin. — A large specimen of this 

 superb tortoise, " alive," though decapitated, and showing the marks of sharp teeth, was 

 recently found by the writer upon the bank of Shunganunga creek near Topeka. It 

 shows that even the best equipped specimens of these armor-clad reptiles sometimes fall 

 a prey to the minks or other carnivorous mammals of our western streams. A young liv- 

 ing specimen collected near Geuda Springs, has been received from Messrs. Harry and 

 Walter Vrooman; and a third specimen is in the collections of the Kansas Academy of 

 Science, contributed from Neosho Falls by Col. N. S. Goss. 



Oinostemum Pennsylvanicum, Bosc: Eastern Mud Turtle. — Through the courtesy of 

 Prof. Popenoe, I have been able to examine the tortoises in the cabinet of the State 

 Agricultural College. Among them I find a single specimen of this species. It was 

 taken in Trego county by Mr. S. C. Mason. 



Srrlnjtoriis lunhiJatus, Harl., var. Thayeri, B. &. G: Thayer's Alligator Lizard. — Re- 

 ceived from McPherson county through Dr. John Rundstrom. 



Sceloporus consobrinus, B. & < J. : Marcy's Alligator Lizard. — In my former list I could 

 quote only a Nebraska and an Indian Territory record as evidence that this lizard be- 

 longed to the Kansas fauna. A specimen from central Kansas has since been contributed 

 to the Washburn zoological cabinet by Mr. Jerry B. Fields. It is a female, and represents, 

 fide Prof. Cope, S. Qarmani, Boul. 



Onemidophorus tessellatus, Say: Tessellated Swift. — The occurrence of this species in 

 Kansas was hardly expected; but a specimen of the typical variety has been sent me 

 from McPherson county, by Dr. Jobn Rundstrom. 



Enmirrs fasriuliis, Linn: Blue-tailed Skink. — A considerable number of specimens from 

 Neosho Falls, presented by Col. X. S. (loss to Washburn College and the Kansas Acad- 

 emy of Science, includes the erythrocephedus, (jitiuquelineatux and fasciatus phases, or rather 

 ages, which were mistaken for distinct species by Dr. Holbrook. 



