Family: 
Clemmys (Chelopus) guttata (Schneider) Strauch. 
Spotted turtle. 
Abundant in the brooks, and occasionally in Bateman’s pond. 
February 23 to 
Clemmys (Chelopus) insculpta (Leconte) Strauch. 
Sculptured tortoise. 
Common in the brooks, not uncommonly found during winter 
thaws. 
Emys blandingit (Holbrook) Strauch. 
Blanding’s turtle. 
In the Boston Society of Natural History, No. 454, there is the 
carapace and plastron of a specimen taken at Concord, Mass., by 
Henry D. Thoreau. 
Cistudo carolina (L.) Gray. 
Box tortoise. 
Though we have never taken it in Concord, it has been found in 
the town near the boundary of Lincoln. Dr. Walter Faxon tells 
us he saw one as long ago as 1890, on the edge of Burlington, 
Mass. Three specimens, all from near Fairhaven Bay, were 
given to Mr. William Brewster, two by Mr. Henry P. Richardson 
and one by Mr. Adams Tolman. Mr. Richardson tells us his two 
were captured in 1907 or 1908 on the Charles Francis Adams 
estate, and another from Heath’s bridge was taken in 1910. Mr. 
Tolman reports that the one he gave Mr. Brewster was caught 
on Thoreau Street, and that he has taken two others in Concord. 
ORDER: Ophidia Snakes. 
Colubridae. 
Diadophis punctatus (L.) Baird and Girard. 
Ring-necked snake. 
Rather uncommon. 
Inopeltis vernalis (Harlan) Cope. - 
Grass snake. 
Fairly common. 
April 22 to October 12. 
Zamenis constrictor (L.) Boulenger. 
Black snake. 
Not uncommon, especially about brooks. 
Osceola (Ophibolus) doliata triangula (Boie) Cope. 
Milk or chicken snake. 
Common in dry situations. 
May 16 to 
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