44 THE NAUTILUS. 



who has made life so pleasant these many years in housekeeping 

 and business, over the shallow bank where only a few nicely 

 terraced oaks were to be seen, and striking an attitude, front of 

 stage, exclaimed " Look at that. That is perhaps the one best 

 view, celestial, we will ever get." 



In the morning Henry was halted at the windmill to be filled 

 up. The owner of the pasture, we had learned to like; " he is 

 white" we said, with his helper was doing his chores. He 

 carried a double row of cartridges in his belt; a forty-five and a 

 telescope lay upon a barrel-head, and a rifle rested against the 

 derrick. The equipment was the best. 



' ' Going a hunting ? " I asked, innocent-like. 



"Not this morning," he answered. "The fact is," he 

 added, "it takes two of us to watch that fellow over in the other 

 house. We have been shot at in this corral several times. Our 

 fences have been cut and three horses and a cow shot this week. 

 He wants me to buy him out and I don't want his ranch at the 

 price he asks." 



It is but a short distance from one thing to another all round 

 the world. On the fifth of May we were again in Tuscon hav- 

 ing collected at 134 stations. 



NOTES ON THE SPECIES OF FASCIOLARIA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN 



UNITED STATES. 



BY CHARLES W. JOHNSON. 



The following notes of long standing are brought together for 

 the purpose of pointing out some discrepancies that seem to 

 have passed unnoticed. Another object is to supply a demand 

 from some of our readers for something more pertaining to the 

 marine mollusks. 

 Fasciolaria gigantea Kiener. 

 F, papillosa Sowerby, Tankerville Cat. App. p. 16, 1825; Reeve, 



Conch. Icon., (Fasciolaria) vol. 4, pi. 1, f. la, Ib, pi. 7, 



f. Ic, Id, 1847. 

 F. gigantea Kiener Icon. Coq. Viv., (Fasciolaria) p. 5, pi. 10 



and 11. 

 Tryon's Manual Conch., vol. Ill, p. 75, fig. 14-16, 1881. 



