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96 Boy Scouts these lay minute eggs in a mass of transparent jelly, and are to be found on lily pads and other water plants, or crawling on the bottom, while the mussels bury themselves more or !?ss in the mud or lie on the gravelly bottom of streams. There is also a very numerous tribe of small bivalve shells, varying from ?_?.?.. half an inch to very minute in size, ? which are ?_?.?.*? also mud lovers and are known as ?--?((?)? ] or Pisidium, having no "common" English /r [ ,,?,,,,?'?'? ] names, since only those who hunt for them ? know of their existence. On the seashore everyoody knows the mussel (Myglus: see Fig. S), the soft dam, ? the round dam, and the oyster, as these are sought for food; but there is a multitude of smaller bivalves which are not so well known. The sea-snails 'oest known on the coast north Fig. 4 of Chesapeake Bay are the whelk (Buc?inum., Orb-Shell (P/aso?- see Fig. 3), the sand snail or Nat?a, which bi? trivolds bores the round holes often found in dam shells on the beach, in order to suck the juices of its neighbors, and the' various kinds of peri- winkles (rock snails or Li#oriaa) /ound by the millions on the rocks between tlde?. These, as well as the limpets, Fig. 5 small boat-shaped or Black mussel (Myts'lu?) slipper-shaped conical shells found in similar places, are vegetable feeders. Altogether, there are several hundred kinds found on the seashore and the water near ? the shore, and a collection of them will not only contain many curious, pretty, and interesting things,. but will have the advantage of requiring no preservative to keep them in good condition after Fig. 6 the animal has been ?aken out. Bubble The squids, cuttle-fishes, octopus, ,and their snail (Pkysa allies are also mollusks, but not so accessible to l?o?.tro- the ordinary collector, and can only be kept in pi?) spirits. Books which may help the collector to identify the shells he may find are: For the land and fresh-water shells: ?t;?