THE BAYLOR BULLETIN 



Kinney County. This carries its range west of the 

 100th Meridian. 



In the course of a very few years the great saurian 

 will have become one of the rare animals of Texas. 



TESTUDINATA 



ATHEC^ 



DERMOCHELID^ 



2. Dermochelys coriacea Linn. Trunk Turtle : Leather- 



back Turtle. 



This enormous sea turtle, which is said to attain 

 a weight of more than a thousand pounds, is a rare 

 visitor to the Texas coast. I have personally seen but 

 one Texas specimen, a large one nearly six feet in 

 length, which was captured off the coast of Brazoria 

 County. 



THECOPHORA 

 CHELYDRID^ 



3. Chelydra serpentina Linn. Snapping Turtle. 



This large turtle is not uncommon in the lakes 

 and streams of the eastern half of Texas, but has 

 been overlooked by the many herpetologists and col- 

 lectors who have visited the State. In fact, Arthur 

 Erwin Brown rejected it from his faunal list of 

 Texas reptiles on account of his being unable to find 

 specific locality records in the literature. Hon. J. D. 

 Mitchell records it from Victoria County in the man- 

 uscript list sent to me ; and Mr. Louis Garni captured 

 it in Cibolo Creek in Kendall County. I have exam- 

 ined specimens from the San Antonio River, Bexar 

 County, and have captured examples in the San Ja- 

 cinto River, Liberty County; Neches River, Smith 

 County; Arroyo Blanco, Bee County; Arroyo Medio, 

 Refugio County; San Marcos River, Hays County, 



