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Perhaps it does. But not for anything of special importance in 
this connection, for Kiener, many years before, gave us a pair of 
figures quite as good; not to mention that made by Sowerby some 
years later. 
It should be understood that these references are not made in 
defence of the present specific standing of the shells, but mainly in 
deference to those readers who may have missed seeing my former 
articles relating to them. The species, i. e., C. Greegori, is doubtless 
already sufficiently fortified to prevent successful assaults from any 
quarter. 
In conclusion, it might be well to add, that Mr. Smith’s rather 
emphatic “reminder” of my lack of courtesy, is wholly gratuitous, 
and therefore does not call for comment. 
In the interest of peace, however, it is accepted “ with thanks, 
and filed for future courteous consideration. 
Philadelphia, October, 1893. 
3) 
THE SHEEPSCOTE RIVER. 
BY REV. HENRY W. WINKLEY. 
The fauna of the eastern coast of New England, aside from the 
species which characterize it as a whole, has a number of small areas 
where the oyster, quahog and other southern forms exist. The most 
conspicuous of these areas is Northumberland Straits, where the 
oyster is abundant enough to be of commercial value. Other 
points, where the Virginian fauna occurs, are a few sheltered spots 
on the east coast of Nova Scotia, in Minas Basin, Casco Bay and 
Massachusetts Bay, with a few outliers of less importance. 
These spots on the coast are widely separated from each other, 
and have in the near neighborhood animals which are adapted to 
the colder waters. Some few years ago the present writer published 
a list of thirty species found in Northumberland Straits." The 
present summer was spent in Wiscasset, Maine; this and a visit to 
that place three years ago enabled me to dredge in many places in 
the Sheepscote River. 
Wiscasset is ten or twelve miles from the sea and the river is 
practically a salt water bay or fjord. Its depth is ten fathoms in 
1 Bulletin VII—Nat. Hist. Soc. of New Brunswick. 
