*Ihe Hijlory ^ANIMALS. 
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Buccinum albefcens fafciis violaceis. 
The whitifh Buccinum, with violet-coloured zones. 
This is an inch in height or length, and three quarters of an inch in diameter in the 
larged: part of the body : the mouth is large, and nearly round j the body of the fhell 
is inflated, as it were, and the figure approaches to oval: the clavicle has four volu¬ 
tions, and terminates in a little round button ; the ground colour of the fhell is a pale 
grey, but it is variegated with elegant zones of a deep violet blue, variegated with a 
bright white. 
It is a native of many parts of Europe, but not of England ; we have fpecimens of 
it from Italy, and from the South of France. 
Buccinum tenue ventricofum variegatum . 
The thin 3 bellied\ variegated Buccinum . 
This is a very large and a very elegant fpecies; it is three inches in length or height, 
and near two in diameter in the largefi part of the body *. the mouth is oblong and 
very large; the body of the fhell is tumid, and approaches to an oval figure 5 and the 
clavicle has about four volutions, and terminates obtufely : the fhell is extreamly thin 
and light, and is variegated in an elegant manner, with a deep glofly brown, and a 
bright white, and frequently there is fome purplifh among it. 
We have this from the American iflands, where it is frequent in the woods, and 
makes a very odd appearance, as it crawls up the trees, and along the hedges. 
Befide thefe three fpecies there are, of the larger land Buccina, 1. The elegant, 
brown Buccinum, variegated with purple and white. 2. The large, tall, thin Buc¬ 
cinum, with elegant variegations of white and flefh colour. 3. The pale, brown 
Buccinum, variegated with a deeper brown and white 5 and, 4. The Ample, brown, 
or olive land Buccinum. 
2. Of the minute land Buccina, there are the following fpecies. 
Buccinum fufcum ventricofum ore rotundo . 
The brown , ventricofe Buccinum 5 with a round mouth . 
This is a very neat and elegant little fpecies, though wholly without variegations 1 it 
is about a third of an inch in height, and a quarter of an inch in diameter in the 
largefi part: the body is inflated or ventricofe, and of a rounded figure; the clavicle 
has four volutions, and terminates obtufely 5 the mouth is fmall and round : the colour 
of the fhell is a fine chefnut brown; the whole furface bright and glofly, but with¬ 
out any the leafl admixture of any other colour. 
I have met with this about the decayed flumps of trees in Charlton-foreft, and in 
the Arbor Vitas grove at Goodwood. 
Buccinum conicum ore ovato . 
The conic Buccinum , with an oval mouth . 
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This is a very minute fpecies ; it’s length is about a tenth of an inch, and it’s dia¬ 
meter, in the largefi part, is not more than equal to a third of it’s length : it’s figure 
is pretty regularly conic; the mouth is in a manner detached from the body of the 
fhell, and affixed to a kind of neck, and is of an oval figure, and furrounded with a 
narrow lip or rim : the body grows gradually fmaller from the bafe to the top, and 
is formed of about fix volutions ; the fummit is pointed : the colour of the whole fhell. 
is a pale yellowifh. 
I have met with this in fome of the woods in York (hire, among the damp mofs at 
the bottoms of old trees * it is fometimes of a deeper, fometimes of a paler, yellow. 
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