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exclusively. When collecting fleshy fungi I have 

 wonderedat the wisdom of a turtle to pass Amanita, 

 Amanitopsis, Lactarius and Boletus forms, while 

 only the stipe of practically every Russula obscura 

 along the lane is left and the ground strewed with 

 crumbs. 



It was a common practice in former days to 

 carve initials on the plastron of these tortoises. 

 Among the long list of names in the writer's posses- 

 sion is one dated 1838. 



Roy Latham, 



Orient, N. Y. 



NOTES OX NEW JERSEY BATRACHIANS 

 AND REPTILES. 



Sprier pes long lean da. Common along brooks 

 and about springs in the Watchung Hills near 

 Plainfield. 



Bufo americanus. The common toad of the 

 vicinity of Plainfield and, so far as known, of the 

 whole southern two-thirds of New Jersey is Bufo 

 fowleri. I have found B. americanus at Bndd's 

 Lake, Newfoundland, and Newton and recently at 

 Mine Brook, about one mile west of Bernardsville, 

 Somerset Co. The latter locality is a quarter mile 

 north of Lat. 40° 42' and lies in a narrow valley of 

 200 feet elevation between hills which on the south 

 rise to a height of 530 feet and immediately north 

 to 680 feet, two miles further north reaching 857 

 feet. 



The long parallel trap ridges a few miles to the 

 south attain a height of 600 feet, but I have never 

 found the American Toad in those hills. The Mine 

 Brook locality is the southernmost known station for 

 this species in the state. In the more northern New 

 Jersey stations, where the altitude is greater, it is 

 associated with a distinctly more northern flora and 

 fauna than that of Mine Brook. 



