"Dave & Jane Kearney" <kearneyd@erols.com> wrote: >But do we have any Lower Shore tracts named Shortnose Sturgeon, Dwarf Wedgemussel, or Burying Beetle? :-) __________ Well, none that I know of. However, I did google "bog turtle" from your endangered list and found the Wikipedia article asserting that they're 100 ft long [sic] (but only weigh 700 lbs [sic]), the females a little smaller. That's a lot of turtle soup; I can understand why they might have been hunted to near-extinction. There's a single Turtle Creek -- in western Sussex (NW Fork); this must be where the remaining giant reptiles haunt the forest, terrifying the natives. Given their Wikipedia-stated size and weight, I assume their shells harbor vast hydrogen sacs, allowing them to float above the bogs, inhaling mosquitos by the millions. Other than turtles, the patent names refer to many mosquitos, some foxes, the occasional squirrel, a couple of rattlesnakes, one wildcat and a butterfly. A few [Somebody's] Fishing Holes show up, but no sturgeons. Whales are missing altogether. Domesticated creatures, though, are a constant thread: cows (and calves), horses, pigs and hogs, sheep (and ewes) appear in endless patent names. John