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passage of the full grown animals found in the burrows. Apparently 

 they spend a considerable portion, if not all, of their lives wholly 

 within the one and original burrow. When excavated animals are 

 released on the mud flats, they enter the first worm or clam hole 

 encountered and dig in at once. 



In four days' work at the station, some 1,300 specimens of marine 

 invertebrates were secured for the national collections. The bulk of 

 those collections consisted of amphipods, a group of the local fauna 

 which is whollv unworked. The earlier naturalists who collected at 



Fig. "/J. — SearchinL; tOr burrowing Crustacea, Gallant Point. 

 ( Photograph by Shoemaker. ) 



Fort Macon and vicinity appear never to have studied their amphipods, 

 while the later ones seem even to have neglected collecting them. It 

 is planned to use this material as a nucleus for a report on the 

 Amphipoda of Beaufort and vicinity, though a great deal more col- 

 lecting for amphipods needs yet to be done before the region can be 

 said to have been covered for these forms with any degree of com- 

 pleteness. The present collections are only from the shallow water. 

 We wish to express our appreciation to the U. S. Bureau of 

 Fisheries for accommodations and facilities so generously provided 

 at the station, and in particular to Dr. S. F. Hildebrand, the director, 

 for his personal interest and assistance in oiu" work. 



