VAGINALIS, VESPA. 215 
a 
2—5. Vacinauis. Spec. i. 
aiba, (white sheath-bill,) bill black at the base ; 
sheath a yellow or black horny plate nearly 
covering the nostrils ; feathers white. 415 inch- 
es long. 
See MS. P. 
4—3. VanpELLIuS. Spec. 1. 
corpensis, (sword-body,) slender, compressed la- 
terally. 
See MS. P. 
9—3. Venus. Spec. 154. 
mercenaria, (common clam, round clam,) shell 
thick, strong, with slight transverse striz and 
covered with a brown cuticle, (which sometimes 
becomes pavonine,) pale violet or white within ¢ 
depression on the outside behind the beaks ovate 
er subcorilate ; margin crenulate. Shell four 
inches by three, and about two inches thick, 
A very cheap and good article of food among 
the indigent class in New-York and other sea- 
ports in the northern states. “Twenty-five cents 
for clams, and five cents for potatoes, will far- 
nish a comfortable meal for fifteen persons, with 
0 seasoning excepting a little common salt. 
See MS. P. 
8—9. Vespa. Spec. 213. . 
erabro, (hornet,) thorax black the fore part rufous 
without spots ; incisures of the abdomen with a 
double contiguous black dot. Nests are attach- 
ed to house and barn timbers, X&c. 
