ZOOLOGY. 379 



Family B U L L I D ^. 



BULLA NEBULOSA. 



Bulla nehulosa, Goold, Sowerbt, Thes. f. 79,80. 

 i/ai.— Bay of San Pedro; Dr. Trask. 



BULLA TENELLA. 



Sulla tenella, Adams, Sowerby, Thes. pi. 134, f. 104. 

 Hab. — Puget Sound: Dr. Suekley. 



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

 with Sowerby; figure and description quoted above. 



Family OSTREIDJ). 

 OSTREA EDULIS. 



Ostrea edulis, Linn. Lam. 

 Hab. — Shoalwater bay Wash. Terr. ; Dr. Cooper. — Straits of Fuca and Puget Sound; Mr. Gibbs. 



"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 aj^pear to difler little, if at all, from the common 

 oyster of Europe, and possess the same peculiar coppery flavor remai'ked in the European mol- 

 lusc when eaten for the first time. 



In Puget Sound small oysters are found near the mouth of the Nisqually river and some 

 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 Hoods' 

 CanaL"— C. 



ANOMIA MACHROSCHISMA. 



Anomia macroschisma, Desh. Eev. Zool. 369. Mag. Zool. PI. 34.— Midd. Beit, iii, 6. Idem Eeise, p. 242, PI. XIX. fig. 



1—5. 

 Placunanomia macroschisma, Carpenter, Eep. p. 312. 

 HaJ.— 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 Smith- 

 sonian Institution by Mr. Gibbs. 



PECTEN CAURINUS. 



Pecten caminus, Gould Proceed. Boat. Soc. iii., p. 345. Exped. Shells. 95. U. S. Exploring Exped. Moll. & Shells, 

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

 H«i.— Straits of Fuca; Dr. Suekley. 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. 



