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Family B U L L I D M . 

 BULLA NEBULOSA. 



Bulla nebulosa, GOULD, SOWERBY, Thes. f. 79,80. 

 Hal. Bay of San Pedro; Dr. Trask. 



BULLA TENELLA. 



ull a tenella, ADAMS, SOWERBY, Thes. pi. 134, f. 104. 

 Zfa6. Puget Sound; Dr. Suckley. 



The habitat of Adams s shell is not known. A specimen from Puget Sound agrees very well 

 with Sowerby s figure and description quoted above. 



Family OSTEEID^. 

 OSTREA EDULIS? 



Ostrea edulis ? LINN. LAM . 

 Ilab Shoal water bay, Wash. Terr.; Dr. Cooper. Straits of Fuca and Puget Sound; Mr. Gibbs. 



Mr. Carpenter is of opinion that this is a distinct species, and on comparison with European 

 specimens it does show differences. 



Oysters are rare on most parts of the northwest coast, but there are a few localities in 

 which they are found in abundance. One of these is Shoalwater bay, a little to the north of 

 the mouth of Columbia river, where are to be found the conditions requisite for their existence 

 and multiplication. The markets of San Francisco and all the coast southward are supplied 

 from this bay. The oysters obtained here appear to differ little, if at all, from the common 

 oyster of Europe, and possess the same peculiar coppery flavor remarked in the European mol 

 lusc when eaten for the first time. 



&quot;In Puget Sound small oysters are found near the mouth of the Nisqually river, and some 



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others, but nowhere large enough to be of much value. They are said to grow larger at Van 

 couver island, and very large ones have lately been discovered near the mouth of Hood s 

 Canal.&quot; C. 



ANOMIA MACROSCHISMA. 



Anomia macroschi&ma, DESH. Rev. Zool. 369. Mag. Zool. PI. 34. MIDD. Beit, iii, 6, Idem Boise, p. 242, PI. XIX, fig. 



1-5. 



Placunanomia macroschima, CARPENTER, Rep. p. 312. 

 Hab, Straits of Juan de Fuca; G. Gibbs, esq. Nootka sound; C. J. W. Russell. 



Several very perfect specimens were collected at the Straits of Fuca, and sent to the SmLh- 

 sonian Institution by Mr. Gibbs. 



PECTEN CAURINUS. 



Pecten caurinus, GOULD, Proceed. Bost. Soc. iii., p. 345. Exped. Shells, 95. U. S. Exploring Exped. Moll, and Shells, 



p. 458. Atlas, fig. 569. CARPENTER, Rep. p. 311. 

 Hab. Straits of Fuca; Dr. Suckley, G. Gibbs, esq. Port Townsend, Admiralty inlet, Oregon; Gould. 



This fine pecten is found of a much larger size than that described by Dr. Gould. Of ten 

 specimens collected by Mr. Gibbs and sent to the Smithsonian institution, one measures twenty- 

 three inches in circumference, with a diameter of nearly eight inches, and some others are 

 nearly as large. 



