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BULLETIN OF THE NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY. 
‘ 4 The great Pecten tenuicostatus on the coast of Maine and 1 
the Bay of Fundy, was formerly highly valued by the people 
of that region, but now is too scarce to appear on the tables 
of even ‘the rich’ except at rare intervals.” . . . “The 
huge, smooth-shelled Pecten tenuicostatus of the north, as big 
as a fruit-plate, which formally abounded on the coast of 
Maine, has now become so rare as to be a prize in the cabinet 
of the conchologist rather than an edible commodity — a result 
unquestionably due to over-greedy catching.” We believe 
that while the case here stated may be true for the Maine 
coast, it is not so for New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. Large 
numbers of them still live in L’Etang Harbor and other inlets 
both on the New Brunswick and Nova Scotia shores of the 
Bay of Fundy. From the former locality large quantities are 
occasionally brought in schooners to St. John. 
Mr. Willis, thirty years ago, said it was common on the 
whole coast of Nova Scotia, and that it “furnished the 
residents of Lunenburg, Mahone Bay, Chester, etc., with 
many a rich treat. In these localities it is said to be very 
abundant, and more easily obtained than in most other parts 
of the Province.” Nicolas Denys knew of their abundance 
there, for in 1672, he says of La Have Harbor, — “In which 
there are countless numbers of Scallops [Conniffle], which 
are great shell-fish like those which the Pilgrims bring from 
St. Michael and St. James. It is excellent eating.” The 
fishery returns for Nova Scotia give the only official notice of 
Scallops which are given for any of the Provinces. That of 
1886 gives 300 dozen Scallops as taken in Lunenburg County, 
worth fifty cents per dozen, or $150; that of 1887 gives for 
the same county 600 dozen, worth $300. In New Brunswick, 
a schooner occasionally brings a quantity to St. John from 
L’Etang Harbor or Mace’s Bay where they are taken by 
dredges, and they are sold direct from the vessel. The quan- 
tity thus sold is estimated to be about two hundred bushels 
annually. It is frequently eaten by the fishermen of the 
Charlotte County coast. In the Halifax market, not many 
are sold. The usual price is fifty cents per dozen, but not 
infrequently they bring much more. In Prince Edward Island 
