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The Natural Hiftoryof JAMAICA. 
Gy Ap Xk. 
OF Scallops and Cockles. 
I. Eéten ex atro rufefcens tenuis, edmodum cavus, leviter canaliculatus. 
Lift. Hift. Conchyl. Tab. 168. N° 5. Peden Famaicenfis ftrijs ve- 
vibus. Pet. Mem. Cur. Ann. 1708. p.221. N° 1. Tab. 241. Fig. 12,13: 
One of the Valves of this Shell is an Inch hollow or deep; the 
other ftreight or rather a very little convex on the Infide, and hol- 
low’d without. It is almoft round, about three Inches and a half in 
Diameter, of a brownifh red or deep Colour without, white and 
{mooth within. It has feveral Furrows on both upper and under Valve 
and is mot proportionably thick or heavy to-others of this Kind, but 
thin and light. It is equally ear’d on both Sides. 
Thefe Scallops are frequent on the Shores of Jamaica, and eaten by 
the Inhabitants. 
Il. Pecten variegatus, ftrijs circiter ottodecem majufculis donatus. Lift. Hif. 
Conchyl. Tab. 179. N° 16. 
_ This is more than an Inch long from the Cardo tothe Circumfe- 
rence, where it is about as broad, itis ftriated with many large S¢riz, 
is reddifh and brown variegated, and ear’d. 
I found it on the Shores of Famaica flicking to the Baftard Sponge, 
and have had it fent me from Swrarte and Siam in the Eaft-Indies. 
IMI. Petéen parvus, ex croceo variegatus tenuiter admodum firiatus, alternis 
fere firijs paulo minoribus. Lift. Hift. Conchyl. Tab. 189. N° 23. 
This is about an Inch long, eared on one fide, and about an Inch broad 
at the Circumference, where broadeft and round. It is white with Saffron 
colour’d Spots and ribb’d from the Cardo to the Circumference, ’tis {mooth 
and white in the Infide. 
I found this on the Shores in Jamaica and have had it alfo fent to me 
from the Iflands on the Coaft of Scotland. 
IV. Pecten albus anguitus itrijs crebris tenuibus CG imbricatis exafperatus. 
Lift. Hift. Conchyl. Tab, 176. N°: 13. Pecten albus minor fauamofus. Pet. 
Mem. Car. Ann 1708. p. 221. N® 4, 
This is about two Inches and a half long, one Inch anda half broad, 
near the End where roundifh and broadeft. It is about three quarters 
ot anInch broad at the Cardo, allover white and pellucid, now and 
then of a grey brown, ftriated by frequent Lines of the fame Colour, 
imbricated, and of feveral Magnitudes. 
I found it on the Shores of Famaica, and have had it fj Tangier on 
the Coaft of Africa, seg peers 
V. Petten fubrufus firijs viginti guatuor aa minimum donatus. Lift. Hift. 
Conchy!. Lib. 3. Tab. 180, & 181. N°: 17 @ 18. Peden tennis fubrufus ma- 
culofus circiter viginti ftrijs majoribus & levibus donatus. Ej. Hift. An. Angl. 
185. é. 30. Morton. N.H. N. p. 200. N%’ 2. Tab. 4. Fig. | 
