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tain region, but our actual records are few and scattered. 
Persons having specimens of any reptile that they are not 
well acquainted with, would do well to communicate with the 
Curator of the State Museum at Raleigh, or with myself. 
C. S. Brimley, 
Newberne Ave., cor. Tarboro St., 
' Raleigh, N. C. 
(Information is also desired concerning the occurrence of 
the alligator in the state and also as to the occurrence of the 
species of soft shelled turtles in the Mississippi drainage as 
well as in the southeast of the state, the two different parts in 
which they may possibly occur.) 
