856 BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 



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Mytilu's edulis; the latter wonderfully abundant, adhering to the piles 

 all around the town, and in broad patches covering- the flats exposed at 



low tide. They are not eaten to any extent, 

 the clams of the neighborhood being abun- 

 dant and preferable. Ziophcea crispatais also 

 found and attains the extraordinary size of 

 12 to 13 inches from anterior extremity to end 

 of siphons, the shell being 5 inches of the 

 above length, while the girth is 9 inches just 

 posterior to the umbos. The only gastero- 

 pods noticed were Littorma scutulata Gld., 

 Lunatia letcisii Gould, and Purpura crispata 

 Chem.j of the latter numerous finely foliated 

 specimens were obtained, and a curiously 

 dwarfed variety of Acmcea pelta or the local 

 oyster, which latter is small, dark colored, 

 and inferior. I found that the peculiar oc- 

 currence of the lowest tides would not per- 

 mit me to give my attention to other species 

 than those which I had especially in view 

 at the time I started. 



As Budd's Inlet is to Puget Sound, namely, 

 an arm thereof, so are several smaller bays 

 or minor estuaries to Budd's Inlet. These 

 § 'J- p latter are variously known as South Bay, 

 Mud Bay, &c, and the character of their 

 beds varies but little, one compared with 

 the other, the variation being expressed by 

 the terms "muddy sand" or " sandy mud." 

 At the head of the inlet and in the front of 

 | the town, for considerable distance toward 

 the mouth, the alluvium brought down by 

 the stream known as Turnwater, combined 

 with more or less drainage and refuse mat- 

 ter from the town, causes a deposit of ordi- 

 S % nary slimy mud along and on both sides of 

 1 ~ the channel ; but this, as elsewhere, overlies 

 a yellowish sand, the same as may be seen 

 in the hills and whereever a cut has been 

 made in the neighborhood; this sand in 

 some places contains more or less gravel, 

 pebbles, and small bowlders. 



The principal clam u^ed here by the whites 

 is Saxulomus;* next to this Cuneus or Tapes, sometimes called the "little 

 round clam," and occasionally only the mammoth Qlycimeris or geoduck. 



f Saridomus is fully equal, if not superior, as many persons think, to the Atlantic 

 quahaug. It occurs plentifully not alone around Puget Sound, but at many points on 



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