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Woodward, are laid out at night near the coast and taken up 
next morning, or when used out at sea boats lay by for a few hours, 
and then take them up. Sometimes a bushel of whelks are found 
adhering to the baits of a single line. Some of the scarce Fus?, etc., 
have been obtained in this way.' Jeffreys mentions having received 
banks.? It is interesting to note also that these creatures, Buccinum, 
Nassa, Natica, etc., often find their way into lobster-pots which are 
baited with fish or other animal matter. No doubt they are 
attracted, as Tryon states (of assa), by the smell of the bait. At 
Bognor, Sussex, as Mr. D’Urban informed Woodward, Matica alderi 
and JVatica catena are frequently found in the lobster-pots, ‘which 
they enter to feed upon the bait.’® At St. Margaret’s-at-Cliffe, 
on the Kentish coast, as mentioned in Lovell’s ‘ Edible Mollusca,’ 
many of the lobster-pots when drawn up are found to be baitless 
and full of whelks.6 Many other marine gastropods, doubtless, are 
taken at baits in various parts of the world. ‘The ‘ purple-fish’ of 
the ancients, as mentioned by Aristotle, was allured by putrid 
substances, and approached a bait of that kind ‘as having a sensible 
perception of it at a distance.’7 In Mauritius ground-lines baited 
with pieces of the arms of cuttle-fish aré, or were at one time, 
laid down in deep water for the purpose of attracting olives, etc. 
As Mr. Broderip wrote in 1825, ‘it is the amusement of the place to 
watch over the trim apparatus of lines hung over some sand-bank 
to tempt the various brilliant species of O/’va which there abound, 
or to wait for the more rare approach of the harp-shell, till the rich 
hues of its inhabitant are seen eg ons the clear blue 
waters in the rays of a tropical rising su 
results in many of the above cases, some will perhaps be 
inclined to argue, are likely to be largely accidental. Many 
individuals, of course, both of terrestrial and aquatic gastropods, even 
supposing them to be quite incapable of scenting or detecting their 
es * Woodward’s ‘Manual,’ ed. 4, rep. 1890, p. 140, and see W. C. Hey, ‘ Naturalist,’ x. (1885), 
= 3. 
© Rea 1. 
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logy,’ i. (1862), Ixxv., and see also p. xxx 
$i jo8e Loudon’s ‘M at. Flist. ie pds vies 408 ; ‘ British Conchology,’ i. 
(1862) 1 lix: ; Wilcocks’ ‘Sea-fish wae 1875, p. 215. 
* Tryon’s ‘ Manual,’ iv, (1332), 18. 
® Woodward’s ‘ Manual,’ ed. 4, rep. 1890, p. 140. 
°M. S. Lovell, ‘ Edible. eae: ed. 2, lear Pp. 193- 
* Taylor's ‘ Aristotle,’ vi. p. 135. 
= = a Broderip, ‘ Zoological Journal,’ ii. (1825), r99- 
