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Dr. Hay states that the young of this species can be distinguished by the 

 absence of yellow or orange spots on the shell, in marked contrast with the 

 young of the speckled turtle on which the spots appear even before the 

 young are hatched. 



9. Terra pene Carolina (Linnaeus). 

 Box Turtle. 



The Box Turtle is found from New England to Texas and westward to 

 Iowa and Kansas. Although occurring throughout Indiana, it is rare about 

 Lake Maxinkuckee. The only record given by Dr. Hay for northern In- 

 diana is Marshall County. During our observations there we saw only three 

 specimens, as follows: 



April 13, 1901, a dead shell found near a small pond back of the Farrar 

 cottage at the south end of the lake. 



May 22, 1901, one caught in a ditch near the tamarack swamp west of 

 the lake. 



July 10, 1902, one found in Walley's wood& near the railroad south of the 

 lake. 



We have heard of perhaps half a dozen others taken or seen within a few 

 miles of the lake. 



The second and third examples listed above give the following measure- 

 ments : 



This species is entirely terrestial in its habits and is the only strictly 

 land tortoise found in the vicinity of Lake Maxinkuckee. It is never seen 

 in the water and only rarely in or about marshy situations. It most delights 

 in dry, sandy, open woodlands where there is some underbrush and where 

 the ground has a thick covering of dry, decaying leaves. Favorite places are 

 old overgrown fence-rowo along the borders of woodland, in olackberry and 

 raspberry patches and in beech and oak forests where there are old decay- 

 ing logs and chunks. 



The Box Turtle is a silent, solitary, and solemn creature; one rarely sees 

 niore than one at a time. During the mating season, however, two are some- 

 times found together. Very rarely is one seen moving about, and a person 

 is not apt to find any of these turtles unless he direct his observations to the 



