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He states that examples are caught sparingly in fish 

 traps in the Sound and Gardiner's Bay, and even in 

 the smaller, shallow bays. One specimen examined 

 by him weighed 125 pounds. 



3. Eretmochelys irnbricata (L.). Hawksbill 

 turtle. This species is recorded by Sumner, Osburn 

 and Cole, 1 as being more common than the logger- 

 head in Buzzards Bay, Mass. Mr. V. N. Edwards, 

 of Woods Hole, reports having seen examples in the 

 Long Island Sound as late as Thanksgiving Day. 

 They were taken then exhausted by cold. 



4. Chelonia my das (L.). Green turtle. The 

 green turtle has been several times recorded from the 

 coast of New Jersey, and also from Rhode Island. 

 Mr. Latham took one which weighed thirty pounds 

 in the Sound off Orient, on September 30, 1914. In 

 Fulton Market the writer once saw a live one weigh- 

 ing eighteen pounds, which was said to have been 

 caught off the south coast of Long Island. 



5. Chelydra serpentina (L.). Snapping turtle. 

 Generally distributed and locally common. At Ori- 

 ent, where it was formerly very abundant, it is in 

 evidence from April to October. The largest speci- 

 men seen by Mr. Latham weighed 30 pounds. Mr. 

 Latham has found the eggs in June, buried in the 

 sand of a hillside about 200 feet from a pond. JNIr. 

 W. T. Davis has seen both the turtles and their eggs 

 in the vicinity of Tobacco Lot Pond, Gardiner's Is- 

 land, in June. At Mastic and elsewhere, I have fre- 

 quently found deposits of eggs which had apparently 

 been dug up by foxes or racoons. 



The name by which the snappers are known 

 along the south shore is "torup." At Mastic, accord- 

 ing to Mr. Francis Harper, at least one fisherman 

 used to capture them to sell to the Poospatuck Indi- 

 ans, who prize the flesh. On June 13, 1915, Mr. 

 Flarper and Mr. J. T. Nichols found a large carapace 

 of a freshly-eaten torup in a rubbish heap near one 

 of the Poospatuck cabins. 



^ull. Bur. Fisheries, XXXI, 1911, Pt. 2, p. 774. 



