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Copeia. As the young of this species are rarely dis- 

 covered, the actions of one found by the writer have 

 been watched with interest. This turtle was picked 

 up on a sandy country road in June. It had a cara- 

 pace length of 50 mm. and weighed H oz. Portions 

 of the keel were distinctly present. When placed in 

 its box, it at once made for the water where it re- 

 mains almost continually, coming out for an hour or 

 two on bright, hot mornings, to sun itself on some 

 moss. Its favorite diet consists of angle worms, which 

 it devours with avidity, but unlike other Emydidae 

 it rushes out of the water with its prey instead of 

 feeding in the water with head submerged. In this 

 habit it resembles the true land tortoises, toward 

 which the Box Tortoises seem to be evolving. The 

 aquatic life of young Box Tortoises may account for 

 their being so infrequently observed. 



H. L. Babcock, 



Boston, Mass. 



ANOTHER NEW JERSEY KING SNAKE. 



This spring, about June 10th, upon rather a 

 damp windy day, Mr. Outram Bangs and I motored 

 from Rumson to Lakehurst, New Jersey. During a 

 short halt made necessary by a punctured tire we 

 strolled for some distance along a brook which di- 

 vided a large open meadow. We had gone but a 

 short way when we found a fine adult King Snake 

 [Lampropeltis getulus (L.)] sunning on the south 

 side of a large log. The snake is still alive at the 

 Museum of Comparative Zoology at Cambridge. 

 Since Fowler does not record any specimen from just 

 this locality, and as the species is very rare in New 

 Jersey, it seems worth while to place this captive 

 upon record. T.Barbour, 



Cambridge, Mass. 



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