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found it not uncommon at St. Andrews in fishing refuse and 
fish stomachs. It occurs on the north and west of Scotland 
and England, extending as far south as the Welsh coast ; also 
in many Irish localities. 
Foreign localities—Norway and Sweden (Lovén, and 
others), Iceland (Verkriizen), Greenland (Fabricius), } Massa- 
chusetts (Gould, as Fusus Bamftius). 
Fusus, brugwiere. 
* Fusus antiquus, Linné. 
Murex antiquus, Linné; Buccinum album, &c., Lister ; 
Buccinum magnum, Da Costa. 
Habitat—F rom low water mark down to all depths in sand, 
nullipore, mud, and gravel; very common. In Fintry Bay, 
Cumbrae, it is common and fine at low water of spring tides, 
but it is more often taken in 10 to 15 fathoms water. My 
largest specimen was obtained by Captain Kerr, of Campbel- 
town, from the long line fishermen at Can adale, Kintyre ; it 
measures nearly 8 inches long. 
This shellfish, although relished by the working classes in 
England, is seldom or never eaten in this district, but is 
used for bait, being taken in creels set for the purpose. 
In Scotland it shares the name “buckie” with Buecinum 
undatum. It is the type of Swainson’s genus Chrysodomus. 
British distribution.—On the western, northern, and 
eastern coasts, and all Ireland, being plentiful in our northern 
seas, and becoming very scarce (or perhaps absent) in the 
English Channel. Lister figures it as Buccinum album, &c., 
‘a whelke.” 
Foreign localities —From Norway (Sa7s, Lovén,and others), 
throughout western Europe as far as the Bay of Biscay 
(Catlliaud, and others). M‘Andrew records the reversed 
variety (contrarius) from northern Spain, and Mr. Jeffreys 
states that the same variety has been got in the Mediter- 
ranean at Barcelona and Sicily, where the normal form 
appears to be absent. 
* Fusus gracilis, Da Costa. 
Buccinum gracile, Da Costa; Murex corneus, Donovan ; 
Buccinum angustius, Lister; Fusus Islandicus (part), 
Chemnitz ; Tritonium gracile, Lovén. 
Pe ie itor 15 fathoms downward, in mud and muddy 
sand all round Bute; rather common. I have also taken it 
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