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BULLETIN OF THE NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY. 
12. Pecten Islandicus (Muller) Chemnitz. 
Scallop, Iceland Scallop. 
[ Pecten , a comb; Islandicus, Icelandic.] 
Distribution, (a) General; — Low-water mark to one 
hundred fathoms. Cape Cod (very rare to the south of it) to 
the Arctic Ocean and around the North Atlantic to Northern 
Europe and Great Britain. 
(b) In Acadia ; — (in N. B.) Grand Manan, twenty-five to 
forty fathoms, shelly bottoms, Stimpson. Common in Bay 
FlG. 10 . — Pecten Islandicus . Natural Size. 
of Fundy, low-water mark to one hundred fathoms, Verrill. 
L’Etang Harbor, large, though not abundant, Ganong. (In 
N. S.) Annapolis Basin, few small specimens, Verkruzen. 
Whole coast, Jones. Halifax Harbor, Willis. Not yet 
reported from Prince Edward Island. [Rev. George Suther- 
land, in his Natural and Civil History of Prince Edward 
