JOURNAL OF CONCHOLOGY. 317 



LIST OF CYPR^A FOUND IN MORETON BAY, 

 QUEENSLAND. 



By J. BRAZIER, C.M.Z.S., Cor. M. Roy. Soc. Tas., &c. 



A few remarks on Moreton Bay may be of interest to 

 conchological readers in general. It was on the 17th of= May, 

 1770, the celebrated circumnavigator, Captain James Cook, 

 dropped anchor from the bows of the good ship 'Endeavour' in 

 the waters of a large inlet on the eastern coast of Australia, to 

 which he gave the name of 'Moreton Bay' in honor of his patron 

 the Earl of Moreton, the then President of the Royal Society. 



The bay is an extensive sheet of water separating Stradbroke 

 and Moreton Islands from the mainland. It is about 40 miles 

 long, north and south, and 17 miles broad. Stradbroke is 33 

 miles long, north and south, and 7 miles broad. Moreton Island 

 is 20 miles in extreme length about north and south, and 5 miles 

 in breadth near the north end. 



Very few good working collectors have ever visited Moreton 

 Island, the extensive range of long sandy beaches with large 

 stones that can be turned over at low water spring tides. In the 

 bay there are smaller islands and sandbanks with shoals that 

 dredging can be carried on with but little trouble. The only 

 person who did any good dredging in the bay was the late Mr. 

 Fred Strange, who unfortunately lost his life in the service at 

 Percy Island No. IL, by being killed by the Aboriginals. 



This list is made out from those species collected by the late 

 Mr. Charles Coxen of Brisbane, Queensland, he having paid 

 frequent visits to various parts of the bay. He was busy arranging 

 his valuable finds and corresponding with me up to the time of 

 his death in July, 1876. 



I am under great obligation to Mrs. Coxen in her endeavour 

 to assist me with the use of her lamented husband's papers and 

 notes. ' ' 



