THE NAUTILUS. 



VOL. XXIX. FEBRUARY, 1916. No. 1O 



COLLECTING AT NANTUCKET AND MAKTHA'S VINEYARD. 



BY REV. HENRY W. WINKLEY. 



Helix hortensis has been recorded from both of these islands. 

 My visit gave these results At the town of Nantucket the 

 species occurs sparingly in gardens, and abundant in the older 

 cemeteries. It has a fondness for marble grave stones, espe- 

 cially in shady places. No banded forms occur in the town, 

 but both white and yellow colors occur. In one cemetery I 

 found white in one colony, and yellow a few rods away. The 

 specimens from this island are all small, about f the diameter 

 of those from the coast of Maine. 



Knowing there was a colony at Siasconset, seven miles away, 

 at the eastern shore of the island, we drove over to examine a 

 farm where I was told they occurred. I searched the place with 

 negative results. Knowing their propensity for grave stones I 

 asked the farmer's daughter if there was a cemetery at "Scon- 

 set". She didn't know the meaning of the word so I said 

 burying ground. Oh yes! she said, half a mile down that road 

 is where we pick blackberries. So I depended on my instinct 

 and eventually located plain and five-banded forms near the 

 shore. At Marthas Vineyard we lodged at Edgartown, but H. 

 hortensis was not there, so we took an auto trip and examined 

 cemeteries, woods, bushes etc., at Oak Bluffs, Vineyard Haven, 

 Tisbury, Chilmark and Gay Head. I found no trace of it, but 

 did get Succinea ovalis in one spot. I have in my cabinet a few 

 specimens from Indian shell-heaps at Edgartown gathered some 



