294 
Viridh. 
Ruler* 
Jlhusd 
Ater, 
' Di/eors. 
Worms, testacea. 68. Mytiius 
Inhabitsf frelh waters Europe', refembles the laft but is 
and narrower j about 5 inches long and 2 i broad.- As// 
min peJhicid, rounded at both ends, greenifli with very 
ftri$ parallel with the aperture and a few blackifli wrink'*®' 
■within gloffy. white blue or yellowilh and fometiraes Ihinf® 
with iridcfcent colours. 
Ducks and Crows are extremely fond of this and the laft 
crows, when the (hell is too hard for their bills, fly with 
a great heighth, drop the (hell on a rock, and pick out tk* 
meat after the fhell is broken by the fall. 
Shell fmooth ovate membranaceoys pellucid, with a terh'*'* 
nal hinge. 
Inhabits i'ear.irr;! Ocean, Barlut, tab, li.fig. 10. 
Shell green, very thin, about the lize of a man’s nail. 
Shell wrinkled, the valves oblique and dilated in froh*’ 
margin of the hinge equaling the tip. 
Inhabits Southern Ocean. Mu/, lud. Ulr. 543. n. 139. 
Shell red minute convex, with a very fliort compreffed tooth 
the hinge. 
Shell tranfverfel-y ftriate: beaks gibbous; hinge lateral. 
Inhabits Ihores of C/irVi'. Molin. Chil. p. \ 
Shell about 6 inches long and 3f broad, covered with a blue iki"’ 
under vshich it is fnowy with 4 blue tinge; theA/iJ is 
and a very grateful food. 
Shell groved and fcaly behind. 
Inhabits C/kr 7 /. Molin, Uist. Chili., p, ipp. 
Shell rough like a Pinna, lefs than the laft, dull blue : the ffi '' 
black and not eatable. 
Shell oval horny fiibdiaphanous : the extremities ftriate 
gitudinally, the middle tranfverfely. 
Donovan's Brtt, Shells, i. tab. 25, 
Herman Naturf. ty. tab. "i-fig- 5 — 8. 
Born Mu/, d/. Vind. te/t, p. 121. vign. 
Chemn. Naturf. 10. tab. l./ig. 8. 
Chemn. conch. 8. tab. ^C./tg. "jCm — 768, 
Schr/et Einl. in conch, 3. p. 444. tab, / fig. tj. 
Inhibits European Southern Seas, affixed to rocks and titk 
Ihells by its beard ; Jbe/l fmall brittle femitranfparent, bro 
with fometimes a mixture of green near the edges, within j 
iffi with a red or grecniflt-vvhite tinge : the outfide is divih^^ 
into 3 compartments, the middle of which is marked with 0 ^ 
tremely fine tranfverfely ftri® : the fjh is not eatable, 
white foot, fulvous lips, red-brown branchis and anterior ap* 
tares, and brown back, 
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