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Nature Magazine: Carolina number

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  • CAROLINA REPTILES TWO STATES BOAST OF NUMEROUS VARIETIES BY PETER CETHINC The Carolinas, ranging as they do from the towering peaks of the Blue Ridge Mountains to the swamps, marshes, and barrier islands of the coast, offer to the student of herpetology as wide a variety of subjects as may be found anywhere in this country. Of the fifty-four species of the turtle family found in the United States, eighteen are found in the Carolinas. The loggerhead turtle, weighing in its mature state anywhere from two hundred and fifty to five hundred pounds, is a frequent sight at night during its breeding season when this giant chelonian crawls with lumbering pace out of the ocean to lay its eggs, ranging in number from fifty to several hundred. There are few more impressive sights than to watch on a moonlit night the labored progress of the creature as it makes its way to the soft sand above the high-water mark. Closely akin to the loggerhead, the green turtle, while not as frequent a visitor as its cousin, is occasionally seen carrying out its maternal duties along the shores of Carolina. Among the smaller members of the tribe Che- Ionia, the diamond-backed terrapin, beloved of epicures, lives in the marshes and salt creeks of the Carolina Low Country and is comparatively unmolested by turtle-hunters. The beautifully-marked box turtle, Testudo Carolina, is extremely common and its habit of protecting itself from its enemies by closing itself up in its box-like shell is a matter of common knowledge to all small boys. Only one member of the tortoise group is found in Carolina. The gopher tortoise is a typical example, being exclusively terrestrial, slow-moving, THE TREE FROS An amphibian of distinction that lends its green beauty to the Carolina forests and swamps. He represents the age in Time that closely followed the reptile age L. W. BROWNELL THE DIAMOND-BACKED RATTLER Most deadly and feared of all the one of the forty-two Carolina pit-vipers, and snake varieties X.. W. BROWNELL THE GENTLEMAN ROARER OF THE SWAMPS A youthful member of the alligator tribe, which is rapidly disappearing from the waterways of the South. This race deserves protection as a notable remnant of prehistoric days 317
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