[Illustration: FIG. 25. Composition of the population of _T. o. ornata_ at the Damm Farm based on the 194 individuals marked there in the years 1954 to 1956. Individuals smaller than 100 mm. ordinarily could not be sexed accurately and are shown as open bars. Open bars in the groups larger than 100 mm. are for females, whereas solid bars are for males.] My own experience in the field has shown that small examples of _T. ornata_ are not so rare as previous workers have believed. Small box turtles occupy the same microhabitat as do the adults and seem not to be more aquatic or subterranean in habits. Juveniles are found in burrows, in marshy areas, and in other sheltered places, but so are adults. Most of the juveniles that I found were in open situations where adults were abundant, sometimes within several inches of a place where an adult was feeding or basking. Nearly every one of the smaller turtles was discovered when I was closely scrutinizing some other object on the ground; sometimes juveniles were actually touched before being seen. Most juveniles were covered with cow dung or mud and blended so well with the substrate that they were detected only when they moved. It is likely that only a small number of the young box turtles present in an area is ever actually observed. Young are more vulnerable to predation and injury because of their small size, soft shells, and immovable plastra. They evidently rely, to a large extent, on inconspicuousness for protection. [Illustration: FIG. 26. The seasonal abundance of females of _T. o. ornata_ based on 540 adults captured at the Damm Farm, the Reservation, and on roads in eastern Kansas, in the years 1954 to 1956. Records are grouped in periods of 30 days, the periods beginning with the dates shown at the bottoms of the bars. Juveniles are not considered. Numbers at the top of each bar indicate the size of the sample (both sexes) and give an approximate indication of relative seasonal abundance of adults, except for August, when little field work was done.] MOVEMENTS The only previous study of movements of _T. ornata_ is that of Fitch (1958:99-101). He recovered 14 marked _T. ornata_ at the Reservation a total of 30 times, the period between recaptures varying from one to seven years. He reported that the average radius of home range was 274 feet (for an area of approximately 5.4 acres), excluding a single (presumably gravid) female that moved 1830 feet in 53 days.