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quainted with the reptiles of New England, have never 
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seen in our latitude, to omit it. 
Thus we find catalogued the “ Testudo scabra.” This 
error may have been produced by Say’s incorrectly includ- 
-ing this species in a paper “ On the fresh water and land 
Tortoises of the United States,’ published in the fourth 
volume of the Journal of the Academy of Natural Sci- 
ences. The species he considered the “scabra,” is the 
“ insculpta." 
The “Testudo Pennsylvanica" is plainly confounded 
with the **Sternothacrus odoratus," a widely-distributed 
species. 
The “ Coluber striatulus” of that catalogue, I have also 
omitted; not merely because I have not met with it my- 
self, but because my friend Dr. Pickering, an accomplished 
naturalist, thoroughly versed in the herpetology of New 
England, assures me, he not only never met with it here, 
but never heard of its having been found here, it being 
strictly a southern species. 
The ** Rana clamata" I have also erased, because no 
one of my scientific friends has ever met with it; and Dr. 
Holbrook, who well knows the species, and has visited this 
portion of the country repeatedly of late years, to collect 
materials for his | great work, says, in his third volume, this 
species ‘‘ is found in the low countries of Carolina and 
Georgia; farther north than this, I have never seen it.” 
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The “Salamandra cinerea" is omitted, because Dr. 
Green, who first described it, as well as the ** erythronota,” 
considers them both one species. 
The “ Salamandra tigrina” and “ longicauda” may per- 
haps both be found here; but knowing no one who 
ever seen them in this State, I wrote to Dr. Emmons, u 
whose authority they were given in that catalogue, Aae 
formation; he writes me, that he thinks he has seen a 
i specimen of each, but adds: **I will not take the responsi- 
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