ETHIOPIAN CROWN. 
Our figure of this fine shell is exadlly co- 
pied, in size and colour, from the celebrated 
Planches Enluminees ; where it is merely said 
to be the Coronne d'Ethiopie a GrifFe, tiree 
du Cabinet de Madame la Presidente de Bain- 
deville." 
The Lady of the President of Baindeville 
appears to have possessed a valuable cabinet 
of shells ; as several others, some of them 
exceedingly rare, have been also figured in the 
Planches Enluminees. 
With respe6l to the Ethiopian Crown, 
which is well known to conchologists, we 
have only to observe, that the finest specimens 
are said to be found on the shores of Am- 
boyna ; and that, by most naturalists, it is 
considered as of the Concha Globosa or Do- 
lium genus. A shell of this species is by 
some called the Persica Con6la, or the Per- 
sian Crown : and Aldrovandus, who seems at 
a loss to refer it to any particular class, says 
that it would be of the turbinated kind, if it 
were not destitute of a turban. 
