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eum, where Doctor Stejneger confirmed my offhand 

 recognition of the species. My friend, Mr. Nicker- 

 son, told me that he had seen a turtle of this kind 

 some years previous in Boot Pond. 



On May 27, 1911, when passing Island Pond 

 (the one near Gunner's Exchange) I saw several 

 specimens, supposedly of this species, sunning them- 

 selves on the rocks on the eastern side of the pond. 

 Upon stopping the carriage to get a better look at 

 them, they immediately plunged into the water. A 

 little later in the day a specimen in Hoyt's Pond 

 swam from the shore directly under the boat, almost 

 within reach of the dip net, and still later, in Gunner's 

 Exchange, several of these specimens were seen on 

 shore, but they literally ran to the water as soon as 

 our boat came within sight, so that it was impossible 

 to capture one. Hoyt's Pond is not given on the 

 U. S. G. S. ma]), but it immediately adjoins Gun- 

 ner's Exchange, and the two formerly were connect- 

 ed. Owing to the shrinkage of all the ponds about 

 Plymouth, the two have been rarely united of late 

 years. 



On September 15, 1911, I found a carapace of 

 this turtle in a cottage near Mica j all's Pond, and was 

 told by Mr. Standish that he had taken it there a 

 year or two previous. 



Finally, on September 26, 1913, I found, when 

 returning from College Pond, a large specimen in 

 the middle of the road about half a mile from Crook- 

 ed Pond. It was so extremely snappy that I did not 

 attempt to keep it. 



That this species was not earlier recognized in 

 the vicinity of Plymouth is not so surprising as it 

 may seem. It is, as Mr. Barbour has noted, extreme- 

 ly shy, and even when seen or taken, there was prob- 

 ably no one in Plymouth who would have been ac- 

 quainted with the species, but would, as I did when a 

 bov, think it might possibly be an overgrown Painted 

 Turtle. 



