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plastron covered by a thick leathery skin, flexible at the margins ; 

 neck long and flexible, snoot pointed and tubular; feet webbed. 

 Aquatic, carnivorous and very voracious. 



1 Amyda mutica Le Sueur 

 Leathi /• turtli 

 A depression along median line of carapace, no Bpines or tuber- 

 live to brown, young spotted; feet not mottled below. 

 Length \ % 2 inches. 



Probably found in the northern part of the state in Lakes Erie 

 and Ontario and the streams flowing into them. 



2 Aspidonectes spinifer Le Sueur 



SqfUsfu II' >/ turtle 



Do Kay. Trionyx fur ox , p. 6, pi. 6, fig. 11 



Carapace slate-colored with spots; legs and feet mottled every- 

 where with dark; anterior part of carapace with tnbercul* 



Pound in Lake- Ontario and Erie, from which they come through 

 the Erie canal to the Hudson : also in southwestern part of state. 



Family 2 chelydridae 

 Snapping turtl 



Represented by one species with the characters of the family. 



3 Chelydra serpentina L. 

 Snapping turtle 

 De Kay. Ch elo n ur a s e r p en ti n a , p. 8, pi. 3, fig. 6 

 Young dusky brown with dark .-pots; head very large; jaws 

 strong; tail long and Btrong, with crest of compressed tubercli 

 plastron small, cross-shaped, leaving the body largely uncovered ; 

 - partially webbed. Length 2-t inches. 



Found all over the state in quiet waters. Its snapping propensi- 

 ties are well known. In the spring it lays ♦ '»<) to 70 eggs in the sand, 

 frequently at Borne distance from the water | De K 



Family .") kinosternidae 

 Box turtles 

 I irapace long and narrow, lightest behind; margins turned 

 downward and inward rather than outward; plastron large ; head 

 pointed : limbs Blender. 



