THE OREGON 
In taking an inventory I find 3538 specimens be- 
sides a stamp book of many goodold_ varieties. 
T should like to start a collectors autograph al- 
bum by exchanging name upon a plain white card 
perbaps 2x3inches in size giving first name 
branch of study, and address. I believe lam a 
born archaeologist, and am making that my 
main study. I trust this article may benefit some 
of ovr amateur coilectors in the arrangement of 
their collections. 
OREGON’S LARGEST LAND SHELL. 
Felix (Aglaia) fivelis, Gray. 
Humboldt 
Bay to Vancouvers Island, and eastward to the 
Mt. Shasta the 
form 1s very much smaller than those usually 
An Oregon species found from 
Cascade Mountains. From 
found while it is unusuaily 
the Coos Bay region. 
bolt Biy almost merges into 4. 
well developed in 
The form from Hum- 
infumata a 
California species and it therefore varies in color 
from this entire black form to almost white, the 
band being present except in the extremely dark 
variety, 
This probably 
the handsomest of Oregons many species, the 
beautiful land shell, is 
shelJs vary much in size and color, adult speci- 
mens are found measuring an inch and a_ half 
in diameter, it 1s described by Josiah Keep in 
his admirable *‘West Coast Shells” as follows 
*“Whorls seven, umbilicus partly concealed by 
by 
The color is always dark 
the reflected peristome, surface marked 
‘fine lines of growth. 
beneath, but the spire is Sometimes lighter and 
marked by rich bands of black and yellow or 
light brown.” 
This species is still quite p'entifal and we be- 
French 
lieve has heen sold to the restuarants 
in Portland for eating being served in the same 
NATURALIST. 
manner as edjx pomatia, the edible Snail of 
France and in fact all Europe. 
THE PARKMAN’S WREN. 
In this locality the Parkmans is more abun- 
dant than the House Wren, though not so well 
known on account of its retiring habits. 
About the last week of April they begin to ar- 
rive, but are usualiy heard before they are seen. 
They seem to prefer to nest in the woods near 
water, differing in this respect from the House 
Wren which is more sociable, nesting around 
and in the city in the bird-boxes put up for the 
purpose and in every conceivable corner and 
hole, The nests of the Parkman’s Wren are 
generally built in the deserted holes of the Dow- 
ny Woodpecker or Yellow-breasted Sapsucker, 
and are usually completed and the clutch laid hy 
the first week of June. The nests are built of 
sticks, usually Oak, and lined with grape-vine 
bark, horse-hair, and feathers. 
The clutch usually consists of seven eggs 
rarely less, sometimes eight ornine. The eggs 
are hardly distinguishable from those of the 
House Wren, but they average larger. Below 
I give descriptions and measurements of a few 
sets taken this year. 
Set I. Seven eggs. 
dead Poplar tree, composed of sticks, and lined 
Nest 18 feet up in a 
with bark, and fur. Eggs clay color, spotted 
with reddish brown and lilac, forming wreaths 
around the large ends of the eggs. ‘Taken 
June 7th 1894. Measure- 
67 x .54 .67 x 54 .66 x 54 .64.x 52 
. CHEE AIOB! 3152 503 x 153". 
Set 2. Eight eggs. Nest 7 feet up in knot- 
Incubation slight. 
ments. 
hole in dead Willow stub, composed of sticks, 
Eggs whitish, spotted 
Taken 
Measure- 
hair, fur, and feathers. 
very heavily with pink and purple. 
June 7th 1894. 
ments. 
.62 X.50 .62 x .51 .62 x .53 .61 x .49 .61 48 
.60 ¥ .50 .60 x .47 .60 x .52. 
Set 3. Seven eggs. Nest 28 feet up’ in de- 
serted Downy Woodpecker’s hole in Willow 
Incubation fresh. 
