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shells that we were no doubt justified in expecting to meet with, 

 were absent from our captures, but to compensate us we had 

 two hitherto unrecorded habitats for the local Limncea glabra, 

 this of itself making the day's collecting somewhat remarkable, 

 as years may elapse before either of us again finds this species 

 in a new locality. 



ON THE MARINE SHELLS OF MAGILLIGAN 

 STRAND, COUNTY TYRONE, 



By miss HONORIA GALWEY, M.C.S. 



(Read before the Conchological Society). 



Having read with great interest the paper of the Rev. Carleton 

 Greene on " Marine Shells found at Filey " (read before the 

 Conchological Society), I should like to bring under the notice 

 of the lovers of conchology, some of the Strands in Ireland, 

 and one in particular, MagilHgan, with which I am well 

 acquainted, believing that a visit would amply repay the trouble. 

 The place is easy of access by the Belfast and Northern Co.'s 

 Railway from Belfast to Londonderry, and good lodgings and 

 accommodation can be had at Castlerock, a sea-bathing place 

 close at hand, also at Downhill, though of a rougher description. 

 I subjoin a short account of shells which I picked up in the 

 course of some hours spent on the strand above mentioned, in 

 the months of June and August, 1886, and August, 1887. I 

 doubt not that a dredge in a few feet of water would bring in 

 treasures in greater variety. Magilligan Strand extends in a 

 broad belt of "golden sand" for about seven miles, from 

 Downhill station to the mouth of Lough Foyle, in a curve of 

 the open Atlantic lying to the North and North-west. A large 

 number of the shells which I gathered contained the living 

 animal, others were just emptied and left unbroken by sea-gulls, 

 which, disturbed at their feast, flew on a few yards ahead. The 



