246 Trans. Acad. Sci. of St. Louis. 



River. (See Transactions of the Academy of Science of 

 St. Louis, 6: 261.) Later on I found this species quite 

 common in all the counties bordering the Mississippi in 

 Illinois — Madison, St. Clair, Monroe, Randolph, and 

 Union Counties. 



Habits. — Mr. W. C. Whelpley of Cobden, Union Co., 

 111., in a letter dated July 16, 1904, gives the following 

 account of the Carolina Box Turtle: — "Where to look for 

 terrapins. I took a sack and went to the old limestone 

 spring, where the water comes out on the north side of the 

 hill in the woods. A small stream runs down the hill 

 about 75 feet to a low swampy ground, which is grown 

 up very heavy with willows, cat-tails and swamp grasses. 

 This makes it a very cool and wet place the year round. I 

 was looking very carefully for turtles, when my eyes 

 fell on the top of a terrapin shell in the mud at the roots 

 of a large tree, where for a few feet around there was no 

 grass or weeds. The water was about one-half inch deep 

 on one side of the tree and dry ground on the other side. 

 I stepped over to reach the turtle, and I could see the print 

 or form of another shell in the mud. I then procured 

 a stout stick and began to probe in the mud. Within five 

 minutes' time, I found six turtles in this mudhole, three 

 feet in diameter. About ten feet from the above space 

 and further down the hill I found another mudhole and in 

 it two more terrapins ; about three feet further down in a 

 similar place I found three more of these animals. All 

 of them were under the surface of the ground except the 

 first one that I found. Some of them were fully eight 

 inches below the surface, but in each instance I found a 

 place, where the turtle could reach the air by raising its 

 head about one inch from under the water. After finding 

 these eleven terrapins I think I have learned where to look 

 for them in warm weather." 



The same gentleman reports in another letter, dated 

 July 26, 1904, the following experience: — "I was stand- 

 ing near a thick growth of high grass which surrounded 



