No. 8 SMITHSONIAN EXPLORATIONS, I9Q13 25 
During the three months’ trip which Dr. Abbott spent in Baltistan, 
in northwestern Cashmere, he secured about 289 skins which have 
been presented to the National \luseum. 
After a sojourn in England, he expected to return to Cashmere in 
May, and march to Ladak. He also intended to visit Nubra, and go 
east along the frontier to the Dipsang Plains where he hoped to 
secure specimens of a certain vole from Kara Korum Pass, as well 
as the little Tibetan fox, known to the Cashmere furriers as the 
“ King Fox.” At the time of the letter he anticipated a four months’ 
trip during the summer of 1913. 
This expedition, the results of which have been delayed in transit, 
was very successful. The small fox was obtained, also several 
wolves, lynxes, and many smaller mammals. The accompanying 
illustrations have been made from photographs sent by Dr. Abbott. 
MARINE INVERTEBRATES FROM THE “EASTERN SHORE,” VA. 
ae ulyarerone. Violin 35 eElicnderson, ss, “aeresent: of the 
Smithsonian Institution, and Dr. Paul Bartsch, of the National 
Museum, made a short trip to Chincoteague, on the Atlantic shore 
of Accomac County, Va., for the purpose of securing exhibition 
material of marine invertebrates and ascertaining the local marine 
fauna, particularly that of the mollusca. (Owing to the inaccessi- 
bility of this strip of coast, generally known as the “ Eastern Shore,” 
collectors seem to have neglected it. At any event, there appear to be 
but few records and no critical lists published of the shallow water 
shells from any locality between Cape May, N. J.,and Beaufort, N.C. 
The chief objects of this trip were to determine of just what ele- 
ments the molluscan fauna consisted ; to see how many, if any, species 
of southern range lapped over from Hatteras, and what northern 
species still persisted in this faunal area. The collectors were for- 
tunate in their somewhat haphazard choice of a locality, for they en- 
countered at Chincoteague a greater variety of stations than can 
probably be found at any other point along this section of the coast. 
Here there are interior sounds of very considerable extent which 
are very shallow (4 to 12 ft.), more or less thickly sown with oyster 
beds and with patches of eel grass, the bottom ranging from hard 
sand, through varying degrees of hard clay, to soft mud. 
They found also the unusual feature of a bight or protected cove 
formed by the southward drift at the southern end of Assateague 
Island, protected from heavy wave action by a long, curved sand 
spit. This bight has a soft mud bottom, with a temperature possibly 
