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Dauphin county, Keboch, F. D., Williamstown. 

 Delaware county, Dickson, Wallace C, Wayne, 

 Luzerne county, Campbell, E. W., Pittston. 

 Luzerne county, James, Wayne T., Wilkes-Barre. 

 Luzerne county, Campbell, E. W., Wilkes-Barre. 

 Lycoming county, Koch, Aug., Williamsport. 

 Northampton county, Bedford, G. H., Nazareth. 

 York county, Donleay, LeRoy, Etters. 



ShaAv says of this species that ^'It inhabits rivers and lakes in 

 North America. The young are scarcely larger than pigeons' eggs 

 and are very black, beautifully spotted with gold color." 



Its eggs are few in number according to Agassiz, never being 

 more than three or four. These are an inch and a quarter in length 

 and three-fourths of an inch in width. 



About the 20th of June it is said the female digs a vertical hole 

 by the use of her hind legs and after laying the eggs pushes the dirt 

 back over the opening so as to conceal it entirely. It is in the more 

 quite pools of remote woods that the young or smaller specimens 

 of this species are found and this indicates the vicinity in which the 

 eggs are laid and the young live. 



The following chart shows the results of study of the stomach 

 contents of tweuty-seven specimens of the Speckled Turtle: 



Vegetation, 



Undetermined leaves, 



Undetermined seeds, 



Graminese — Grass, 



Animal matter, 



Annulata, (Worms), 



Mollusca, 



Snails, 



Slugs, 



Crustacea, 



Undetermined spp., 



Gammarus sp., (Fresh Water Shr'mps), 



"^ Cambarus sp., (Crayfish), 



Myriapoda, (Millipedes, etc.), 



Arachnida, (Spiders), 



Insecta, (Insects), 



Undetermined fragments, 



Ephemerida, (Mayflies), 



Plecoptera — Perlidae, (Stone Flies), . . . 



