![Transcription Center logo](/themes/custom/tc_theme/assets/image/logo.png)
This transcription has been completed. Contact us with corrections.
in the plates surrounding it. These markings tend to become elongate with smaller surrounding spots in the lateral plates [[strikethrough]] and [[/strikethrough]] toward the ventral edge and posteriorly become confluent forming irregular Ls and crosses. iris reddish brown & nearly round. At a casual glance the shell seemed profusely spotted. This was a female with eggs ready for the shell. Stomach contained fragments of snails, seeds of [[underlined]] Rubus [[/underlined]] sp. probably dewberry and beetle, Orthopteron and Dipteran remains, vegetable rubbish, bits of leaves, grass and gravel. These two animals showed diverse dispositions. One the first described was too fat to get into its shell entirely and soon overcame all fear but the other remained shut in all the while and when released [[strikethrough]] merely [[/strikethrough]] on a floor merely crawled into a corner while its companion investigated every nook and corner. [[underlined]] Rhus glabra [[/underlined]] was in bloom and attracted many insects. [[underlined]] Photinus [[/underlined]] sp especially common. [[end page]] [[start page]] July 20, Sunday. Out this morning before five and went out to Georgetown alone. Walked across the bridge to Rosslyn and then followed up the river below Cherrydale. Very hot & close with fog along the river at first. About the bridge in Georgetown were considerable numbers of Barn swallows mostly young birds. As While waiting for the car at the Treasury where I transferred several fish crows flew [[strikethrough]] off [[/strikethrough]] over and several small parties of Purple grackles flying out to feed somewhere. Looked along the river for worm-eating Warblers but only saw one and failed to get it. It was an adult and was evidently feeding young out of the nest. Here they seem to frequent thick growths of bushes near the river usually where a small stream comes out of a gully. Saw two broods of Kentucky Warblers out of the nest and shot two making one into a skin and the other into a skeleton. They show very little of the black about the head that the adults have.