148 KEW : THE FACULTY OF FOOD-FINDING IN GASTROPODS. 
In the same wood, also, I have repeatedly seen slugs about 
excrement, which they doubtless find in a similar manner; and on 
om 
seen iesing together at the same spot. According to Major Becher, 
slugs are always to be seen, in damp weather, at excrement on the 
road-sides in the Maltese Islands, ' 
The yellow slug (Zimax flavus), Mr. W. A. Gain has shown, is 
very fond of cream, and readily finds it out; so that milk standing 
for cream in cellars or dairies frequented by the slug has to be well 
protected.” As noted by Dr. Binney, this slug makes its presence 
disagreeable in cellars also ‘ by insinuating itself into vessels con- 
and flour An o rw on 
slugs,’ which, in three days, ate every vestige of it.# A remarkable 
assemblage of slugs and snai/s about some hen- -COOPS, the food- ‘pans 
of which contained barley-meal, was described in ‘Science Gossip’ 
in 1867. e Seebonely favourable state of the weather on the 
evening in question, which had followed an unfavourable period, 
probably helps to account fe the very large numbers stated to have 
been seen; but that the animals were attracted by the barley-meal, 
as suggested by the observer, can hardly be doubted :— 
n the 11th of May of the sree year [1867], I was witness, with seven 
extraordi 
and disgusting sight. Snails, with and without shells, —chiefly the long black snail— 
ground. The whole family was called out to witness it, and it was soon found 
entrance to which was about ten yards distant from the coops. A further search 
sities not quite so abundantly infested. The day had been showery, and it followed 
thoi Salt wi 
profusely applied, and the dead bodies were shovelled up next morning. eee these 
creatures attracted by the barley-meal? What sense led them to the coops?* 
1 E. F. Becher, ‘ Journ. of Conch.,’ iv. (1884), 232. 
2 W. A. Gain — 1889, p 
3% A, Binney, ‘Ter trial Air retin Mollusks of the United States,’ ii. (x85), 36. 
+ J. S., ‘Gardeners > Chelate, P- 343- 
5 L., An Invading Army of ween : Sent Gossip,’ 1867, p. 215. Ge tans 
Naturalist, 
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