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finding it impossible to reach the hook or even to see 

 it, I opened his belly, and finding the perch still alive, 

 threw it into the water. While it could not right it- 

 self and swim away, it continued for some time to 

 paddle around in a circle. 



Chas. W. Mead, 

 New York, N. Y. 



NOTES OX A FISH CAUGHT THREE 



TIMES. 



The writer has on several occasions seen fishes 

 bite on a hook when they have already been caught 

 once. 



In one instance on Upper Saranac Lake in the 

 Adirondacks a yellow perch (P. flavescens) was 

 caught, a worm being used as bait. The lower half 

 of its tail was slightly deformed and this served as 

 a mark of identification. As the writer was not after 

 perch, the fish was tossed back uninjured. 



Within about ten minutes it had been caught 

 three times. 



D wight Franklin, 

 New York, N. Y. 



BOX TORTOISE {Terrapene Carolina) SWIM- 

 MING A CREEK. 



On May 9th, about eight o'clock in the morning, 

 I noticed an object moving about in Darby Creek, 

 about a mile above Addingham. It was a few feet out 

 from the shore, and through a pair of field-glasses 

 was seen to be a box tortoise. At this point the creek 

 is about fifteen to twenty yards wide, and the tortoise 

 was headed directly for the opposite shore. It swam 

 very slowly and laboriously, only the highest part of 

 the carapace and the head, from just below the eyes, 

 projecting above the surface of the water. As it 

 moved along, it bobbed up and down. After much 

 effort, when within a few feet of landing on the oppo- 



