408 REED-WRIGHT— THE VERTEBRATES OF [October i, 



XXI. Order LACERTILIA. 

 32. Family Scincid^. The Skinks. 



94. Leiolopisma laterale (Say). Ground lizard. 



One specimen (No. 3550) taken at Caroline April 23, 1892, by 

 W. J. Terry and L. A. Fuertes. 



XXII. Order TESTUDINATA. 

 33. Family Teionychid^. The Soft-shelled Turtles. 



95. Aspidonectes spinifer (Le Sueur). Common soft-shelled turtle. 

 Common at the north end of the lake. A few specimens have 



been taken at the south end. 



34. Family Chelydrid^. The Snapping Turtles. 



96. Chelydra serpentina (Linnaeus). Snapping turtle. 

 Common. Found in all marshy places. The earliest spring 



record is April 13, 1906. The eggs hatch the first of October. On 

 October 3, 1883, twenty-four specimens were found that had just 

 hatched. A few were still in the nest but the larger number were 

 in line moving towards water. 



35. Family Kinosternid^. The Musk Turtles. 



97. Terrapene odorata (Latreille). Musk turtle. 



Common in the Seneca river and marshes about Montezuma 

 where it was first found by A. A. Allen and J. T. Lloyd, September 



24, 1908. 



36. Family Emydid^e. The Pond Turtles. 



98. Chrysemys marginata (Agassiz). Agassiz' painted turtle. 

 Abundant throughout the basin. On January 25, 1906, a single 



individual was observed swimniing under the ice on a pond near Ithaca. 

 The same day 150 were taken by fishermen at the head of the lake. 

 This early emergence from hibernation was due to the extremely 

 mild winter up to that date and the unusually warm week of January 



25. On the same date this species was observed along the southern 

 shore of Lake Ontario. 



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