110 THE NAUTILUS. 
sky. It is a scene of primitive sylvan grandeur not often found 
in this part of the country. Great numbers 
of fallen trees and decaying logs are lying in 
every ravine, and the ground is thickly 
carpeted with leaves. It is thus an ideal 
aos home for the land snails, which flourish in 
Helix albolabris. abundance, and a “happy hunting ground ” 
for the enthusiastic collector, who, if he pays it a visit during a warm, 
humid day of summer—just after a shower for instance, when every- 
thing among the trees is saturated, and the air is smoking with 
movisture—will find the woods literally teeming with Mollusean life. 
The writer on one such day 
carried home actually two 
quarts of splendid live speci- 
mens in his pockets, besides 
having filled all his collect- 
H. palliata, ing boxes. They speedily 
a slimy mass, not conducing in any great degree to 
personal comfort, but who among the Nautilus people 
could resist a like temptation ? 
At such a time an abundance of Helix albolabris, 
large and beautiful, and H. thyroides, crawling about 
the logs, and traveling among the leaves; plentiful 
supplies of H. alternata and palliata, but keeping 
H.palliata. nearer at home; ocasionally a Zonites fuliginosus,— 
a very pretty shell when perfect ; many of H. tridentata ; H. monodon 
(fraterna), and hirsuta to be had on closer search among the stones 
in the vicinity of the falls; while down at the river’s edge, on the 
rushes and weeds, are thousands of Suecinea ovalis, and associated 
with them though in greatly lessened proportion, is an elongated 
form of S. avara of dark amber color, some individuals of which are 
found reaching 11 millimeters in length. 
Patula alternata. 
(To be continued.) 
