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1915, at Aylesworth Ferry, in the Washita River, between Bryan 

 and Marshall counties, Oklahoma, hy N. R. Goggans, and weighed 

 fifty pounds when brought to the biological lal)oratories of the 

 Southeastern State Teachers' College, of Durant, Oklahoma. Here 

 it was placed in a five-foot galvanized tank in the outdoor labora- 

 tory in Wild Acre, along with the other live collections in the 

 vivaria under study. Here it was observed by hundreds of visitors, 

 and for three years wa.s transferred during the inclemency of 

 winter weather to a special tank in the main la])oratory, and re- 

 turned during open season to the campus collections, during which 

 time, habit and feeding studies were carried out by the students. 



In the summer of 1918, it was decided to liberate the specimen 

 for migration studies. Mr. Floyd Hagood and the writer affixed 

 a large sheet copper plate to a left hinder marginal plate, and 

 •liheratcd the specimen in Blue River, Armstrong, Oklalioma, be- 

 neath the highway bridge leading to Caddo. 



The inscription on the plate was as follows; 



SOUTHEASTERN STATE NORMAL. 



DURANT, OKLAHOA'IA. REPORT TO 



DEPT. BIOLOGY. M. M. WICKLIAM. 



TAG NO. 10. SEPT. 12, 1915. 



WT. 50 LBS., LENGTH 34 IN. 



DO NOT KILL. MACROCHELYS LACERTINA. 



Tlie specimen was liberated in latter Jidy 1918, at the point 

 ir.dicated Septemljer 11, 1918, W. B. Speairs, steward of the con- 

 vict ramp, working on the highway between Durant and Caddo, 

 r.nd C. R. Harper, found the large terrapin, bearing tag no. 10, in 

 a nuid-hole near the water in-take for the- city of Durant, in River 

 Blue, some 300 yards from the ])oint where it was returned to the 

 river in latter July. The specimen was taken to camp by the 

 ':'invicts, cleaned, weighed, and measured. A copy of the inscrip- 

 tion was rnrnislied tn the writer l)y W. B. Speairs. There were no 

 ;i,pprcciablc dilferencos this time in weight or measurement. The 

 : pccimen was replaced where found by the convicts. 



In latter July 1921, this specimen was recaptured at Nail's 

 Crossing, River Blue, just west of Kenefic, Bryan county, Okla- 

 homa, and the inscription of the tag recopied and furnished to the 

 writer. The specimen was tied temporarily to a bush on the 

 bank with an improvised tether, while the captors went in search 

 of mcar.uring tape and scales to secure data on the specimen 

 requested by the tag. Upon their return they were disappointed 

 t:) find that the powerful terrapin had pulled up the shrub and dis- 

 appeared again into the stream. 



