82 THE NAUTILUS. 



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EXTRACT FROM A NOTE BOOK 



[Extract from the report of Mrs. M. F. Hradshaw. From the Transactions of the 

 Isaac Lea Couchological Chapter for 1895.] 



A pleasant ride through beds of wild flowers, sweeping miles of 

 barley, or golden avenues of mustard, brought us to the seashore at 

 Newport, Orange County, California. Here begins a peninsula of 

 several miles in length, and in width but a narrow strip of sand, 

 formed by the bay, into which empties the Santa Ana River. Our 

 destination was down this strip some three miles from the little 

 town. 



The road was on the bay side, and low sand dunes, covered with 

 wild flowers we had never seen before, lay on one side, on the other 

 the muddy shores of the bay, literally covered with Cerithidea fi/i- 

 funi lea. 



In the afternoon we drove down the hard beach on the ocean side 

 of this narrow peninsula for a mile or more, then crossed over the 

 low dunes to a little "lake" made by the receding tide leaving the 

 sand, or rather mud, dry all around this little depression. Here 

 was our hunting ground. We proceeded to dig in the mud for live 

 shells and, to my surprise, brought out not only clams and scallops 

 but Naticas and Muricidte. And here I found my first Nassa fegit- 

 la. While Cerethidea laid high and dry and apparently dead, 

 acres and miles of them, the Nassas kept under the edge of the 

 water, walked about quite lively, and when disturbed went quickly 

 down into the soft mud and out of sight. 



Chorus belcheri had been taken out of that pond in numbers, but 

 M. S. had exhausted the supply before we came, There were a 



