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or less with white interspersed dots, specks, reticulations or 
streaks of one or other colors. Tail largely blackish below. 
Plastron horny terra-cotta, also marginal plates of carapace 
below. Sutures at bridge and edges of marginal plates of cara- 
pace black. A broad median area of blackish down each series 
of plates on carapace. Claws blackish. Eye brownish. Length 
about 64 inches. Mare Run, tributary of the Great Egg Har- 
bor River above May’s Landing in Atlantic County. April 
23d, 1905. T. D. Keim and H. W. Fowler. - 
Near Cold Spring in Cape May County, Mr. H. W. Hand 
and myself found this turtle very abundant in April of 1904. 
They were found in the fresh water-soaked marshes and pools 
at the edge of the salt-marshes. None were seen in the latter, 
however. They seemed to prefer the short grass. A beautiful 
example had the carapace black in life, spotted with bright 
orange-yellow. Head and legs marked with rose-red and black. 
Claws black. Jaws reddish and sides marked with longitudinal 
brick-red lines. Iris brown with a longitudinal dark band. Top 
of head with several dark spots. Plastron pale brownish marked 
with black. Length 6 inches, 
Abundant about Dennisville in Cape May County, and 
sought for as food. They do not attain quite the large 
size of Chrysemys picta though are equally active and 
vigorous. Dr. Abbott says it is abundant about Trenton and 
is used as food. Mr. §S. Harbert Hamilton found it in 
Mantua Creek, near Mantua, in April of 1906. Mr. Witmer 
Stone reports it about 3 miles southeast of Woodmansie in 
Burlington County. About Palermo, Cape May County, George 
Z. Hartman, T. D. Keim and myself found it abundant in 
pools about the edge of the salt-marsh. It was, however, less 
abundant than Chrysemys picta and Kinosternon pensylvanicum. 
This was in April of 1906. We also found the young. 
Emys guttata Say, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., IV, pt. 2, 
1825, p. 212 (ref. infers).—Holbrook, N. Am. Herp., IT, 1838, 
p. 25, Pl. 4 (ref. infers).—Holbrook, 1. c., Ed. 2, I, 1842, p. 81. 
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