^40 MYTILUS. MUSSEL, Class VI. 



Inhabits fresh waters. 



Crows feed on these mussels ; and also on 

 different shell-fish. It is diverting to observe, 

 that when the shell is too hard for their bills, 

 they will fly with it to a great height, drop the 

 shell on a rock, and pick out the meat, when the 

 shell is fractured by the fall. Tab. Ixxi. 



J I. DiscoRS. Gm. Lin. 3356. Mont. Tesi. Br. 167. 



Lin. Tr. viii. 111. ^ 3./. 8. 



*' M. with an oval shell, horn-colored, partly 

 diaphanous, very convex, striated lengthways 

 on the fore-part, and crossways on the hinder, 

 with sixteen or eighteen distant ribs. 



On the south coast of JVales, Southampton., 

 Poole, and llfracombe, Devo}isIiire, 



12. VRJSci- Lin. Tr. viii. 1 12. Moni. Test. Br. \Qb. 



sus. 



t. 4. /. 2. 



* M. with an oblong, deformed, wrinkled shell, 

 the hinge at the extremity ; length a quarter of 

 an inch, breadtli half an inch. 



Discovered by Mr. Montagu on the Devon- 

 shire coast and in fVales. 



