738 General Notes. -[September, 
very cunning, and managed for some time to keep on the opposite 
sides of some of the larger limbs, but I finally got a shot at him. 
He came to the ground with a bounce, when I found it was-a 
woodchuck. It was but slightly wounded in one of the fore legs, 
and I captured it and took it home. I put it in a hollow tree 
near my residence, and it remained there a couple of weeks, freely 
eating the corn which I regularly fed it. But one night it emi- 
grated, and I saw it no more. These animals are not plentiful in 
this region, indeed in a residence here of twenty-four years, 
have only seen one other specimen, though occasionally hearing 
them mentioned. Until this incident, I did not know that they 
ever ascended such tall trees— Charles Aldrich, Webster City, Towa, 
Fune 9, 1881. 
CARPHOPHIOPS HELEN IN INDIANA.—This species of serpent 
was originally described from specimens obtained at Monticello, 
Miss., and. in Southern Illinois. I have a specimen that was cap- 
tured by Mr. Charles Jameson, of Indianapolis, in Brown county, 
Indiana. The locality is about forty miles south of Indianapolis. 
—0O. P. Hay. 
EUT#NIA RADIX IN INDIANA.—In the Museum of Butler Uni- 
versity there isa good and well characterized specimen of u- 
tenia radix, that I have every reason to believe was found at 
Irvington, near Indianapolis. The species is found at Blooming- 
‘ton, Illinois, and is included, by Dr. W. H. Smith, in his “ Cata- 
logue of the Reptiles and Amphibians of Michigan,” as occurring 
in that State—O. P. Hay, Butler University, Fune 15. 
Habits oF THE YELLOW-BELLIED WooprEcKER.—! found, at 
Buckfield, Maine, early in July, a yellow-bellied woodpecker s 
nest, and with it collected a large section of a white birch tree 
that shows their marks in vertical instead of horizontal rows, an 
is a proof that they eat the sap if not also the bark. The hum- 
ming-birds were very thick around the tree, sucking the sap 
where it was running from the holes; there were also butterflies 
and moths around it. The nest was very peculiar, being placed 
on the north side of a tall poplar—H. C. Bumpus 
PROBABLE CaUsE OF THE LonGEvITY OF TuRTLES.—So far a 
we are aware, no attempt has been made to explain the unusual 
longevity of turtles, whose lives, as is well known, span over @ 
century. There appears to be no longer-lived animals than these 
a some tuf- 
as any one ever found any empty turtle shells ? As to have 
