COPEIA 59 



On this morning (March 26) the turtle was 

 killed and an examination of the viscera was made. , 

 It was found that the stomach contained a small 

 amount of whitish mucus, part of which was mixed 

 with earth. The small intestine was contracted and 

 entirely empty. The upper third had thickened walls 

 and was much larger in diameter than the lower por- 

 tion. The linings of the intestinal canal for the space 

 of an inch above the point of entrance of the hepatic 

 duct was stained a deep brownish orange. This ap- 

 parently was due to bile. The gall bladder was filled, 

 and the bile, very dark green in color, was thickened 

 to the point of viscidity, so that portions of it could 

 be drawn over the enameled surface of the dissecting 

 tray with a probe. Below the hepatic duct, the walls 

 of the intestine were pale. An orange tint appeared 

 four inches above the ca?cal expansion and increased 

 in intensity to the point of junction of large and 

 small intestines. The csecum was empty. In the 

 rectum were four rounded masses of. firm, hardened 

 mucus, each as large as a pellet of number 8 shot. 

 The cloaca was empty and completely contracted. 

 The animal seemed' to be normal in flesh, and small 

 masses of orange-yellow fat persisted along the dor- 

 sal wall of the body cavity and in the region of the 

 pelvic arch. Apparently metabolism had been in 

 abeyance during the period of hibernation. 



Alexander Wetmobe, 



Fbancis Habpeb, 



Washington, D. C. 



SPADE-FOOT TOAD AT MASTIC, LONG 

 ISLAND. 



The morning of June 17, 1916, after heavy warm 

 rain the preceding night there were singing Spade- 

 foot Toads in a woodland pool beside a road. At 

 mid-day one was seen to cross the road and hop away 

 from the pool into the woods. Its colors matched the 

 leaf-carpet wonderfully. Others remained all day. 



