GLANDINA. 



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representing them with ours, we are compelled to stop at 

 the point where the evidence ceases to he clear. 



The habits of this animal are somewhat aquatic. It is 

 found on the sea-islands of Georgia, and around the Ever- 

 glades of Florida ; and in these situations the shell often 

 attains the length of two and a half inches, — when found 

 on the oyster hummocks and less humid locahties, it sel- 

 dom exceeds one inch in length. In young individuals 

 the spire forms but a small proportion of the shell ; but 

 in the old it often forms one-third of the length. 



The animal is in part, if not altogether, carnivorous ; 

 and its powerful tongue, armed with long, sharp-pointed 

 hooks, is well adapted to its food. By its action, the soft 

 parts of its prey are rapidly rasped away, or are forced 

 in large morsels down the oesophagus. The animal has 

 been seen to swallow entire the half putrid remains of a 

 Helix, and to attack Limaces confined in the same box 

 with it, rasping off large portions of the integument, and 

 in some instances destroying them. In one instance an 

 individual attacked and devoured one of its own species, 

 thrusting its long neck into the interior of the shell, and 

 removing all the viscei-a. — [a.] 



