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by crows or other carrion-feeding creatures, which are attracted to 
ints in countless numbers; but, notwithstanding their 
delicate little shellfish are highly esteemed by the aborigines be- 
cause of their piquant flavour, which I imagine to be entirely due 
th sp agoo 
hey are all in their holes, so that when a noble iD savage has a 
yns for a meal of these favourite shellfish whilst they 
ro hehe et y's rh han 
ee elicacy for him by groping with her } s down 
ae of the little creatures ; eh as the entrances to the holes 
ae ; 
Mo. Bot. Garde 
1897. 
