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and enter the water voluntarily. They usually swim 

 beneath the surface, but come up readily to breathe 

 and to take observations. They seem to be familiar 

 with the water, and in their ease and rapidity of 

 swimming they compare favorably with the pond tur- 

 tle (Chrysemys picta) . 



On July 31, 1910, I took a photograph of nine 

 box turtles in a group in the edge of a pond at 

 Middle Island, where they had lain for hours. On 

 August 15, 1915, I photographed one at the same 

 pond nearly submerged in the water at the end of a 

 log, and four others were in sight partly buried in 

 the mud. I have never failed to find the turtles in 

 that pond in midsummer whenever I have looked for 

 them. 



The amphibious nature of the Long Island box 

 turtle is so well known to the native inhabitants that 

 records of the fact seem commonplace. But a note 

 in the September Copeia, and statements in many 

 standard natural histories, render it worth while to 

 record the aquatic habits of the species. 



Frank Overton^ 

 Patchogue, N. Y. 



A NOTE ON TWO INTERESTING NEW 

 JERSEY AMPHIBIANS. 



For several summers past trips to Lakehurst, 

 N. J., in search of the Sphagnum Frog, Rana virga- 

 tipes Cope, and Anderson's Hyla, Hyla andersoni 

 Baird, have afforded some pleasant outings for my 

 brother, F. K. Barbour, and myself. We have usual- 

 ly left our home at Rumson, N. J., in a machine, and 

 reached Lakehurst in something less than two hours. 

 The afternoons we have usually spent in wandering 

 about the sphagnum bogs and along the cold spring 

 branches which run into the lake, searching for the 

 sphagnum frogs, which we have found at times in 

 considerable numbers. Our observations have con- 



