NATURAL HISTORY. 
Siphonida. 
Mya arenaria; Abundant—buried in the sand, near low-water mark at Culmore Point. 
This is sometimes called Brallion, hut the same name seems to be applied toother shell-fish. 
From the position of the parish little variety could be expected in shells—and few, indeed, there 
are. The above-mentioned, together with the Turbo littoreus, or Periwinkle, and small speci¬ 
mens of the Mytilus edulis, or Common Muscle, constituting by far the greater proportion. 
Here then may cease this slight sketch of some of the leading features of the Zoology of the 
parish, which will be filled up in its details, and completed in the zoological description of the 
county. 
