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TURTLES. 



The land and water forms together number eight species. Of these 

 the soft-shelled turtle, the speckled tortoise, Blauding's tortoise and the 

 box tortoise are rare. Even the commoner species are not very abundant. 

 No more than two dozen eggs were found. They were of the Aromochelys 

 odoratus (Latreille), and were laid in heaps of debris which had been 

 washed up along the shore. The species are as follows: 



Aspidonectes spinifer (Le Sueur). 



Chelydra serpentina (L.). 



Aromochelys odoralus (Latreille). 



Graptemys geographicus (Le Sueur). 



Chi-ysemys margiuata (Agassiz). 



Clemmys guttatus (Schneider). 



Emydoidea blandingi (Holbrook). 



Terrapene Carolina (L.). 



I desire to acknowledge the helpful sugge.stions of Dr. C. H. Eigen- 

 mann in the preparation of this brief report. Dr. S. E. Meek has also 

 kindly aided me in preparing a partial catalogue of the fishes, and has 

 mapped out the general plan of the paper. 



