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at Eye with a Spharium corneum fastened to the hind toe. He 

 noted that the bird was sailing " with apparently a leg down." 

 The foot and shell were placed in the British Museum. Numerous 

 records from other counties of transmission of water Molluscs by 

 birds may be found in Mr. Wallis Kew's 'Dispersal of Shells.' 



Land Molluscs may be carried from place to place by similar 

 agencies : witness a comparatively recent observation in Sussex. 

 Mr. H. J. Stalley records in the ' Journal of Conch ology ' (April, 

 1911) having found in a lane near Upper Beeding " a huge 

 Bumble-bee with one of its hind legs held firmly between the 

 shell and the operculum of a fine specimen of Cyclostoma elegans ; 

 the Bee was only able to progress in a series of short flights, 

 rising about two feet in the air, and then being dragged down 

 again by the weight of the Snail, reaching the ground in each 

 case some four or five fe«t from its last resting place." 



Man has played and will continue to play no insignificant 

 part in the dispersal of Molluscs. Probably in the majority of 

 English, counties enthusiastic conchologists have brought living 

 Snails from considerable distances and turned them down in 

 spots where they had not previously been observed. 



Testacella scutulum was introduced by Mr. W. Jeffery in 1881 

 into his garden at Batham, Chichester, from Newport, Isle of 

 Wight. Specimens were collected from the garden in June, 

 1889, and probably it continues to flourish there. 



Weaver, writing of H. pomatia in Gordon's ' History of 

 Harting,' remarks that " a tender solicitude for the length of 

 our catalogue of natural productions has induced us to import 

 some fifty or sixty specimens of this fine Snail into the parish. 

 These were obtained from Preston Candover, where about thirty 

 years ago they were plentiful, and we made an impartial distri- 

 bution of them between Padswood Copse, the Warren, the hedge- 

 rows on either side of Love Lane, and Lever's Copse at the foot 

 of the Fore Down ; but the experiment to establish them here 

 signally failed ; we never saw one of them afterwards." Weaver 

 attributes their extermination to Hedgehogs. 



Mr. W. Jeffery unsuccessfully attempted to introduce (circa 

 1868) this species into his garden and adjacent bank at Batham, 

 near Chichester. 



The Bev. W. A. Shaw turned down some Northamptonshire 



