Few first-hand observations on predators of _T. ornata_ are available and I have found little direct evidence of predation in the course of this study. In general, adults of the species seem to have few natural enemies other than man. Several of my colleagues at the University of Kansas have observed dogs carrying box turtles in their mouths or chewing on them. Frank B. Cross told me his dog caught and ate young _T. ornata_ in Payne County, Oklahoma, and A. B. Leonard once saw a badger carrying one in Dewy County, Oklahoma. At the Reservation, a freshly killed juvenile was found beneath the nest of a crow (_Corvus brachyrhynchos_) and remains of a hatchling were found in a scat of a copperhead (_Agkistrodon contortrix_). Dr. Fred H. Dale, Director of the Patuxent Research Refuge, Laurel, Maryland, kindly furnished photostatic copies of cards, from the Division of Food Habits Research of the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service, recording the instances in which _Terrapene ornata_ was listed as a food-item. In one instance the stomach of each of two nestlings, in the same nest, of the White-necked Raven (_Corvus cryptoleucus_) in Terry County, Texas, contained remains of recently hatched ornate box turtles; the remains of one turtle made up 64 per cent of the contents of one stomach, and parts of three turtles made up 80 per cent of the contents of the other stomach. Each of two stomachs of the coyote (_Canis latrans_) from Quay County, New Mexico, contained a "trace" of ornate box turtle. Wild carnivores known to occur on the Damm Farm were raccoons (_Procyon lotor_), striped skunks (_Mephitis mephitis_), badgers (_Taxidea taxus_), and coyotes (_Canis latrans_); all were suspect as predators of ornate box turtles. On December 10, 1953, ten dead box turtles (eight adults and two juveniles) were discovered at the top of a cut bank on the Damm Farm, within a few feet of a burrow that was used at least part of the time by a striped skunk. The condition of the turtles suggested that they had lain in the open for several weeks. The heads and legs were missing from most of the turtles and tooth marks were discernible on several of the shells. A logical explanation of this occurrence is that the turtles, using the burrow as a hibernaculum, were ousted by a predator that also inhabited the burrow. Turtles moving about sporadically in late autumn may be quickly chilled by a sudden drop in temperature and therefore be more susceptible to predation than at other times of the year. Two of my colleagues at the Museum of Natural History informed me that they had observed similar concentrations of dead _T. ornata_ in winter.