LITERATURE CITED

Anderson, P. K.

1958. The photic responses and water-approach behavior of hatchling turtles. Copeia, 1958, 3:211-215, 5 figs., August 28.

Agassiz, L.

1857. Contributions to the natural history of the United States. Vol. II, Part III. Embryology of the turtle. Little, Brown and Co., Boston, pp. 451-643, 27 pls.

Cahn, A.

1937. The turtles of Illinois. Illinois Biol. Monogr., 16(1-2):1-218, 31 pls., 15 figs., 20 maps, August 31.

Conant, R.

1938. The reptiles of Ohio. Amer. Midl. Nat., 20(1):1-200, 26 pls., 38 maps, July.

1958. A field guide to reptiles and amphibians of eastern North America. Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston, pp. vii+366, 40 pls., 62 figs., 248 maps.

Conant, R., and C. J. Goin.

1948. A new subspecies of soft-shelled turtle from the central United States, with comments on the application of the name Amyda. Occas. Pap. Mus. Zool., Univ. Michigan, 510:1-19, 2 pls., 1 map, June 15.

Cook, F. A.

1946. Distribution of species of Amyda in Mississippi. Journ. Mississippi Acad. Sci., 1941-1947:185-190.

Smith, H. M.

1950. Handbook of amphibians and reptiles of Kansas. Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist., Misc. Publ., 2:1-336, 233 figs., September 12.

Stejneger, L.

1944. Notes on the American soft-shell turtles with special reference to Amyda Agassizii. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 94(1):1-75, 30 pls.

Tinkle, D. W.

1958. The systematics and ecology of the Sternothaerus carinatus complex (Testudinata, Chelydridae). Tulane Stud. Zool., 6(1):1-56, 57 figs.

Yarrow, H. C.

1882. Check list of North American Reptilia and Batrachia, with catalogue of specimens in the U. S. National Museum. Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., 24:1-249.

Transmitted April 30, 1959.

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