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ZOOLOGY. 
Family MACTRIDiE. 
LUTRARIA MAXIMA. 
Luiraria maxima , Middendorff, Beit. Ill, p. 66, pi. xix, f. 1-4. 1849. 
Lutraria capax , Gould, Proceed. Bost. Soc. N. H. Ill, p. 217. 1850. 
Lutraria maxima , Idem, U. S. Expl. Exped. Moll, and Shells, p. 395. Carp. Rep. p. 300. 
Hab — Shoalwater bay, Dr. Cooper ; San Francisco, California, Dr. Trask; Sitka, Middendorff, (from Wosnessenskii.) 
“This great dam (as all these edible bivalves are indiscriminately called) is found in Shoal¬ 
water bay, within a rather limited area near the mouth and along the larger channels. It is 
buried near two feet deep in hard sand, near low water mark, its long siphon reaching the 
surface and showing where it can be found. It also abounds in many parts of Puget Sound, up 
to near Olympia. It is excellent as food, and has always been one of the chief articles of 
winter stores to the Indians, who preserve the hard parts by stringing and then smoking them 
in their lodges. It attains to 7f inches in breadth, and is very capacious. 
Portions of the clay and sandstone cliffs surrounding the bay are perforated by the burrows 
of this animal at a height of ten feet above the present high water. All the other mollusca 
inhabiting the bay now are also found in these fossil beds; and two which are not found 
now were then common. There is no tradition among the Indians of the time of their elevation, 
and the ancient trees standing on the surface show no signs of the irregular upheavings which 
raised the former levels of low water, by successive stages, to a height now nearly one hundred 
feet above the sea.”—C. 
Family T E L L IN ID JE . 
TELLINA NASUTA. 
Tellina nasuta, Conr. Journ. Acad. Phila. VII, p. 258.— Midd. Beitrage, III, p. 61, 62.— Idem, Reise, p. 256, pi. xxiii, 
f. 6-11.— Sowb. Thes. VI, p. 314, pi. 64, f. 224.— Carp. Rep. p. 302. 
Hab. —Shoalwater hay, Dr. Cooper ; Puget Sound, Dr. Suckley ; San Francisco, Dr. Trask. 
Rather a common species, whose range extends from Lower California to the Arctic regions, 
having been found by Eschscholtz at Sitka, and by Middendorff in the Sea of Okhotsk. 
TELLINA EDENTULA. 
Tellina edentula, Brod. & Sowb. Zool. Journ. IV, p.363 .—Gray, Zool. of Beechey’s Voy. p. 154, pi. 41, f. 5, and pi. 
44, f. 7.— Carp. Rep. p. 301. 
Hab. —Puget Sound, G. Gibbs; Oregon, Nuttall. 
Several specimens of this large species were sent to the Smithsonian Institution by Mr. 
Gibbs. It was also found at the mouth of Columbia river by Mr. Nuttall. In old shells the 
teeth nearly disappear, but in younger examples they are long and strong, so that the name is 
not strictly applicable. 
TELLINA BODEGENSIS. 
Tellina bodegensis , Hinds, Zool. Voy. Sulph. p. 67, pi. 21, f. 2 .—Carp. Rep. p. 302. 
Hab. —Shoalwater hay, Dr. Cooper ; mouth of the Umpqua river, Dr. Vollum,U. S. A. 
This is much more rare than T. nasuta found in the same stations. 
