NOTES ON THE REPRODUCTION OE CERTAIN 

 REPTILES.' 



Eok several years I have handled a number of reptilian eggs 



are based mainly on those collected during the past three sum- 

 mers (1900, 1 90 1 and 1902). The eggs of several species of 

 snake and lizard are found in summer (from about the middle of 

 May to the middle of August) by farm hands who plough them 

 up, when breaking up land that has been in clover or wheat or 

 some other early crop; from this it can be understood that the 

 eggs are deposited at no great depth in the ground. Eggs oi 

 the Painted and Mud Turtles ( C/iry.u mvs picta and Kuiostnuon 



n those of any oth 



; the co 



other species; in size the 

 :ngth, by 21 to 28 in width. 



of larger eggs than the sm 

 rally infer that the smalle 

 laid by smaller and young 



