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The Hifiory of ANIMALS. 
BUCCINUM, 
T H E Buccinum is a Tingle (hell having no hinge, formed of one piece, and that 
fhaped in fome degree like a horn, or other wind inftrument : the belly of the 
fhell is diftended ; the aperture of the mouth is large, wide, and elongated • the tail 
is more or lefs long, and the clavicle more or lefs exerted. 
Lifter has made To large a genus of this, that it comprehends almoft all the other 
ftiells of the univalve clafs ; but the fpecies, under thefe limited characters, are fufficientl 
ly numerous, and a multitude of others, that would have bred confufion, are by thefe 
reflections thrown out, and made the fpecies of the feveral fucceeding genera all of 
which are in fome degree related to one another. 
Buccinum tenuius tuberculofum roflro elongate. 
The Jlender tuberculous Buccinum y with an 
elongated roflrum. 
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This is a very fingular fpecies: it’s length is four or five inches, and it’s diameter, in 
the thickefl: part, not more than an inch: this thickeft part is nearly in the middle of 
the fhell, for the mouth has a roftrum or fnout for it’s lip, which is continued almoft to 
an equal length one way, with the clavicle the other : the fhell confifts of about ten fpiral 
volutions, each of the five larger, or lower ones are elevated into a kind of ridge in 
the middle, which ridge is formed of a row of fhort and obtufe tubercles : the 
roftrum which goes from the mouth is flender, and is fpirally radiated : the general co¬ 
lour of the outer furface is white, but the tubercles are yellowilh, as are alfo the ra¬ 
diations and lines between the feveral feries of them. 
It is found on the fhores of many of the American iflands. 
Buccinum tenuius Iceve roflro fiffo. 
The fmooth andfender Buccinum^ with a fplit 
roftrum . 
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The general length of this fpecies is about three inches: it’s diameter is three 
quarters of an inch : it confifts of about five volutions, the lower one of which is at 
lead: equal in length to all the reft: together: the ground colour of this fhell is white, 
and it is beautifully variegated with irregular clouds and fpots of a dufky reddifh : it is 
perfectly fmooth and even : the mouth is long and narrow, and the upper extremity of 
it is, as it were, fplit. 
This was firft brought from the Eaft Indies, but it has fince been found to be a na¬ 
tive alfo of the American feas, and of many other places. 
Buccinum tenuius lceve y roflro oblongo y labio exteriore denticulato. 
The fmooth , fender Buccinum y with an oblong roftrum y and the outer lip 
denticulated. 
This is alfo a very fingular and beautiful fhell: it’s length is five or fix inches ; it’s 
diameter, in the largefi: part, fcarce more than an inch, and it’s roftrum equal to about 
half the length of it’s tail. It confifts of twelve fpiral volutions: the loweft of 
thefe is largeft, and fome what bellied; it opens, at the front, into an oblong mouth, 
the anterior lip of which has four or five large denticulations on it: and the join¬ 
ing of the two lips is continued into a roftrum or fnout, of a long and flender figure, 
and pointed at the end: the furface of the whole fhell is fmooth, and the colour 
white. 
It is very frequent on the Chores of our American iflands. 
Buccinum 
