NORTH AMERICAN BATRACIIIA AND REPTILIA. 
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120. C. guttatus , Schw. Speckled Tortoise. Snout rounded, 
and its sides not compressed laterally; above black with yellow 
spots; rarely plain black; plastron black, or yellow spotted with 
black. Eastern region, east of Ohio. 
b. Upper jaw more or less deeply notched in front, and 
projecting in the form of an arched bill. 
121. C. muhlenbergi , Schw. Sides of head compressed, 
but not narrowing downward; carapace with or without a keel, 
and the scales eiiher plain or concentrically grooved; a large 
tooth on either side of notch in upper jaw; above dark brown, 
obscurely blotched with lighter; neck with a dark orange blotch 
on each side; below dark with yellowish or reddish spots. New 
Jersey and Eastern Pennsylvania. 
122. C. insculptus,ljQO. Wood Turtle. Sides of head com- 
pressed, and nose narrowing downward; in the adult the scales 
either have radiating ridges, or are smooth; above reddish-brown, 
with radiating black lines; plastron yellow with black blotches; 
throat and extremities reddish. Eastern region, east of Ohio. 
Genus Emys, Brong. 
123. E. meleagris , Shaw. Blanding's Tortoise. Black, 
usually with yellow spots on the carapace; head spotted; plas- 
tron yellow with black blotches; young nearly circular, and 
entirely black except the plastron, which is edged with white. 
Alleghanian district to Wisconsin. 
Genus Cistudo, Flem. 
Vertebral scales about as wide as long; the young, and often 
the adult, with a distinct keel. 
124. C. clausa , subsp. clausa , Gm. Box Turtle. Shell 
broad ; colors variable; above blackish with yellow blotches, or 
numerous small spots and lines; sometimes the background 
Appears yellow with black markings; beneath usually blackish, 
with a yellow border, occasionally all yellow; hind feet with four 
toes.* Eastern part of United States. 
125. 0. clausa, subsp. triunguis , Ag. Three-toed Box 
Turtle. Three toes on hind feet; color pale yellowish, with few 
spots. Austroriparian region to Georgia, Eastern Pennsylvania. 
*A number of specimens from Pease River, Florida, collected by Dr. J. W. Velie, 
and a considerable number in the National Museum, from Lake Okeechobee, agree in 
the following distinguishing charactei'S, and may represent a local Floridan variety: 
Carapace more arcbed than in the last; costal plates flatter, and sloping abruptly 
downward; marginal plates flaring but little; shell narrower and higher; color above 
blackish; a yellow dorsal line; vertebral scales with a few lines of yellow; on the 
costal scales the lines are few and long, radiating from the posterior upper corner: 
beneath yellowish, with generally small scattered black spots and streaks; scales of 
carapace, in small specimens, somewhat imbricated. 
