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Coluuibia county, IJaldy, S., C'alaiwissa. 



Ciiiubcrlaiul counly, Zoolojjical Division, ('ani[) Hill. 



Dauphin county, Zooloj'ical Division, llariisbui};. 



Daupliin county, Fislici*, Hoyd, llanisbur};. 



Dauphin county, Zooloi^ical Division, lli^lispiic. 



Dauphin couuty, Koboch, F. D., W'illianistown. 



Daupliin county, Attaches of Zoological Division, Rockvillc. 



Dauphin county, Sober, Miss M. G., Dauphin. 



Fulton couuty, Palmer, G. A., Waifordsbuig. 



Fulton county, Jackson, R. L., McConnellsburg. 



Lancaster county, Wislar, J. J., Columbia. 



Luzerne cDunty, Campbell, E. W., Pittston. 



Lycominj; county, Koch, Aug., Williamsport. 



Lycoming county, Rothrock, 11 1*., ^^'illiamsport. 



Monroe county, Roberts. G. C, Stroudsburg. 



Northampton county, Kinney, L L,, Portland, 



l*erry county, Stewart, Wm., Landisburg. 



Schuylkill couuty, Ramberger, James, Blackwood. 



Wayne county, Bullock, W. H., Honesdale. 



W. H. Smith says this species "emits a piping note" and if so it 

 must be regarded as one of the numerous species of creatures whose 

 piping or "peeping" is heard in swamps in the spring. 



Professor Smith also adds that, ''after the eleventh year the 

 female on a June evening, digs a vertical hole in which she de- 

 posits her elliptical eggs." Report of Ohio, pg. G(J4. 



Prof. Louis Agassi/, in his contribution on Embryonic Turtles, pub- 

 lished in 1857, says, "The process of reproduction by laying is not 

 commenced before the 11th year. * * * « Enough has been 

 seen to warrant the assumption that from the eleventh to the four- 

 teenth year is about the age at which most, if not all our native 

 fresh water turtles lay tlieir eggs for the first time." He also adds 

 "Not one of our turtles makes more than a single nest. They de- 

 l)Osit all their eggs at once. The Painted Turtle has an almost 

 identical period of incubation with the Snapping Turtle, namely 

 from the 11th to the 2yth of June." 



The Painted Turtle is known to lay only from five to seven eggs a 

 year although more may be found within the body at any time. 

 These do not all come to maturity during the same year. 



Of the eighty-six specimens of Painted Turtles dissected in our 

 laboratory, the stomach contents were found to be as follows: 



No.* Per Cent. 



Vegetation, 63 73.2 



Cryptogams. (Flowcrless Plants) 32 37.4 



Algse, 30 35. 1 



