184 A NATURE WOOING. 



minder of the feasts of a forgotten race a vast pile 

 of shells, bones and broken utensils which serves as 

 the sole monument of a people that has vanished from 

 the earth. 



April 9, 1899. ? Tis Sunday morn once more the 

 last Sabbath of my sojourn in the "Cracker State." 

 A cold wind blows from the north and the mercury 

 stands at 48 at breakfast time. A stove is a com- 

 fort at almost mid- April in the "Land of Flowers." 



I make my way to Bennett's grove. The tempera- 

 ture rises by the time I reach there and begin my 

 search for reptile, mollusk and insect. 



I find here my first living examples of the large 

 pinkish univalve mollusk, Glandina truncata Gmelin. 

 When living and full grown it is one of the largest 

 and most handsome of our North American terres- 

 trial mollusks, reaching at times 100 mm., or four 

 inches in length. Their dead shells, which I have 

 found in various places heretofore, have been 

 bleached by rain and frost. The living ones are pret- 

 tily tinted with rose color or pinkish. This species 

 inhabits the Atlantic and Gulf States from North 

 Carolina to Texas. Binney has written of it: "The 

 habits of this mollusk are somewhat aquatic. It is 

 found on the sea islands of Georgia and around the 

 keys and everglades of Florida, and in these situations 

 the shell often attains the length of four inches. Mr. 

 Say found it in the marshes immediately behind the 

 sand-hills of the coast. It is most readily found in 



