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County, reports it rare on the salt-marshes near there. Mr. H. 
Walker Hand says it occurs on the salt-marshes about Cape May, 
though does not seém to be especially abundant. About Stone 
Harbor, in Cape May County, as many as a dozen are reported 
to be taken most every year, though they are scarce and rather 
difficult to procure. They crawl out of the creeks on the advent 
of frost, and seek winter-quarters by hibernating in the black 
Diamond Back Terrapin. Malaclemys centrata (Latreille). (Young.) 
mud along the banks. ‘This is generally a short distance from 
the water’s edge. They bury a foot or so in the mud and remain 
there all winter. When spring approaches they become revived, 
and move out again. They seem to prefer certain places, burying 
themselves, and will continue for quite a distance up a stream 
or inlet, till a favored locality is found. By means of the dis- 
turbance they have caused in the mud, at the places where they 
