Zoological Bulletin of the Division of Zoology of the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture . s of the carapacein the young are granularly rough. S. E. Pennsylvania and S. W. New Jersey, especially common inChester and Greene counties, Pennsylvania. No record of it inPine Barrens. Species seems restricted to a Carolinian fauna.—Stone, p. 170. Can accurately close all parts of shell under load of 500 or 600pounds. Is found chiefly in marshy situations, but occurs also indriest and hottest places. Chiefly sought for its eggs which arereckoned a delicacy.—Shaw, p. 37. Is a very gentle and timid
Zoological Bulletin of the Division of Zoology of the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture . s of the carapacein the young are granularly rough. S. E. Pennsylvania and S. W. New Jersey, especially common inChester and Greene counties, Pennsylvania. No record of it inPine Barrens. Species seems restricted to a Carolinian fauna.—Stone, p. 170. Can accurately close all parts of shell under load of 500 or 600pounds. Is found chiefly in marshy situations, but occurs also indriest and hottest places. Chiefly sought for its eggs which arereckoned a delicacy.—Shaw, p. 37. Is a very gentle and timid animal. I have seen (May 1), aspecimen, measuring 6 inches, in which the coriaceous laminaecovering the plates were gradually falling off or shed; leaving thenew epidermis completely smooth beneath, with colors of renewedbrilliancy, while the old laminae were dull and strongly often does this desquamation occur? Is it the effect of disease,or is it an annual or periodical process? Common everywhere () on dry land, although also occasionally met with in swamps and 171. Fig. 13. Common Box Turtle, showing outline of carapace and nlastron withside view-of complete specimen. (One-half nat. size.) plastron, with 172 moist places. It never takes to the water from choice and indeedwould be drowned if retained there. It is frequently kept in cellars,under the notion that it drives away or destroys rats and t)therdomestic vermin. One which I kept in my cellar was found in thespring eaten up by the rats. It usually (N. Y.) goes into winterquarters in the latter part of September. DeKay, p. 25. A thoroughly terrestrial animal, though not helpless in statement that they never go near the water and cannot endurerain is untrue. Their shells are too heavy for them to swim harmless, and when disturbed, retire with the shell andsubmit passively to their captor.—Hay, 58. This turtle is found from New York to Missouri and southwardand in fact fr
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