REPTILES/AND AMPHIBIANS OF TEXAS 



and in a nunber of watercourses in Burnet and Mc- 

 Lennan counies. 

 Macrochelys Wcertina Schweigger. Alligator Snap- 

 ping Turie. 

 This, the latest of all North American fresh-water 

 turtles, is by ) means a common animal in the State 

 of Texas. It occurrence here is first mentioned by 

 Baird in his ] t of the reptiles of the Mexican boun- 



dary, but he 

 ing "Lowlan 

 states that it 



)es not cite any localities, merely add- 

 of Texas" under its name. Agassiz 

 found at Austin. The large specimen 

 exhibited by e National Museum at the Pan-Ameri- 

 can Exposit^ was from Southern Texas, but no 

 specific localii was given. 



Some yearkgo, in the San Pedro Springs zoo at 

 San Antonid saw a half -grown specimen which 

 was said to l^e been captured in the San Antonio 

 River. The Wlor Museum collection contains a 

 small exampljaptured by Mr. J. D. Isaacks in the 

 San Jacinto Ipr at Cleveland, Liberty County. 



rOSTERNID^ 



5. CiNOSTBRNUM LOiANAE Baur. Louisiana Mud Turtle. 

 Eastern TexUest to the 98th Meridian; south 

 in the coast pra^ country to Refugio. Probably a 

 variety of the drn Cinosternum pennsylvanicum 

 Bosc, and Cope ids specimens from Dallas under 

 that name. \ 



Mr. C. S. Brii%-rites me that he has received 

 specimens of thiU turtle from Austin, Travis 

 County, and CoMji, Tyler County. Mr. Julius 

 Hurter of St. Lowjssouri, collected a specimen 

 at Texarkana, BowWunty. I have collected speci- 

 mens in the f oUowiiaiities : Laguna Lake, Falls 

 County; San JacintLj.^ Liberty County; Arroyo 

 Medio, Refugio Coiiand Dry Pond, Oak Lake, 

 Bra^o? and Bosque B^^ McLennan County. 



