Stickel (1950:375) placed considerable importance on the occurrence of transient turtles in populations of _T. carolina_; in estimating population density, she added to her study area a peripheral strip, half as wide as the average, estimated home range, to account for turtles that had home ranges only partly within the study area. The study area used by Stickel had no natural boundaries, as habitat conditions on all sides were essentially the same as those of the study area itself. The pasture at the Damm Farm, on the contrary, is a relatively isolated area of natural grassland, bordered by rock fences and cultivated fields. I believe that most of the box turtles found on the pasture were permanent residents there. Individual box turtles at the Damm Farm seemingly occupied but one home range and it did not change from year to year. Populations of _T. ornata_ in areas less isolated than the Damm Farm, like the populations of _T. carolina_ studied by Stickel (_loc. cit._), could be expected to have a higher percentage of transient individuals and individuals with multiple or changing home ranges. Henry S. Fitch told me that he considered most of the individuals of _T. ornata_ that were captured only once at the Reservation were transients. Several females at the Damm Farm traveled long distances from their home ranges to nest but other females nested within their known or estimated home ranges. Seemingly a complex of environmental factors, including soil texture, weather, availability of water, and possibly the urge for random wandering in the breeding season, governs the distances traveled by gravid females and the ultimate selection of a satisfactory nesting site. Females, because of their more extensive travels in the nesting season, seem more likely than males to have multiple or changing home ranges. Males of _T. ornata_ did not noticeably alter the extent or pattern of their movements in the breeding season. Hibernacula, unlike nesting sites, were within the known or estimated home ranges of all individuals studied. [Illustration: FIG. 28. The movements of an adult (non-gravid) female of _T. o. ornata_ in the house pond area at the Damm Farm during a period of 24 days in July, 1955 (solid line), and a period of three days (broken line) in July, 1956. Solid dots represent the points where the turtle was found as her thread trail was mapped; hollow symbols represent points of recapture when no trailing thread was attached to the turtle.]