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enciennes), Porichthys porosus (Valenciennes), Go- 



biesox marmoratus, Jenyns, Scartichthys eques 



(Steindachner), Genypterus blacodcs (Schneider), 



Eleginops maclovina (Valenciennes), Bovichthus 



diacanthus ( Carmichael ) , Paralich thy s k in g i i 



(Jenyns). TT Txr 



Henry W. Fowler, 



Philadelphia, Pa. 



A LARGE POLYODON FROM IOWA. 



The American Museum of Natural History has 

 received the photograph of a very large, mounted 

 Polyodon, taken in Lake Okoboji, Northern Iowa, 

 February 22, 1916, by Mr. R. D. Vanderbeck of 

 Arnold's Park, Iowa, who writes that it was taken 

 with a spear and gives the length of the fish as 7 ft. 

 1 in., its girth 45% in., the length of the bill 17 in. 



J. T. Nichols, 

 New York, N. Y. 



NOTES ON CISTUDO CAROLINA FROM 

 ORIENT, LONG ISLAND. 



Considerable has been said in Copeia about the 

 aquatic habits of the Box Tortoise on Long Island. 

 I would like to put on record a few instances of its 

 frequenting both fresh and salt water near Orient. 



One quite remarkable occurrence was in August, 

 1909, at East Marion. In the center of a dry woods 

 there was a depression where the water had recently 

 evaporated, leaving a deep oozy mire. In and around 

 this sink I counted between sixty and seventy of 

 these turtles. More than half of these were partly 

 or entirely submerged in the mud. Specimens were 

 poked out that were buried near a foot in depth. 

 Circling around the hole at varying distances I 

 Observed numbers of others working toward it from 

 all directions. The most surprising thing to me was 



