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like the rest of its family carnivorous, never having been 

 observed by me to eat vegetable food. This species and the 

 others of the same genus are the only turtles that cannot sup- 

 port themselves in deep water without something to rest on, 

 and if one is placed in a tub of water where it cannot support 

 itself on something so as to get its head out of the water, will 

 soon become exhausted from its struggles to reach the surface 

 and drown. All our other genera of turtles both aquatic and 

 terrestrial, including the nearly related Aromochelys which 

 by the way is thoroughly aquatic, float without any difficulty 

 whatever. 



Of our other species of Testudinata I have no observations to 

 record except that a Snapping Turtle in the posession of the 

 State Museum used to eat live toads, dragging them under 

 water to swallow them. 



