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Das Thierleben der Alpenwelt F. von Tschudi (Review in Athenaeum /55/ p. 480/. Relates several cases of Eagles taking away children 3 years old. called Lamb-Eagle— Will seize Foxes "& occasions have been known when he has seized upon the throat of an Eagle in mid air & bit it through with such force that both have come to the ground, with comparative safety to Reynard. One child was carried some distance & dropped & lived & was called Eagle-annie.

The Reviewer says he saw once on Goldsborough Moor an Hawk & weazel descending together, the former badly wounded, but the weazel run away.—

The number of these stories makes me believe in them.—

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[upper half of sheet excised]

lower part of the shell. The large [excised]

which I have seen was 2½ to inch  [excised]

2 in height.

Scuta.— These are placed together at the rostral end of the aperture, & are imbedded in the brownish, tough, longitudinally plicated horny substance, which extends far beyond both ends of the valves.

In outline, they are mitre-shaped or rounded

& more or less elongated being most so in young specimens; they are however a little coursed less elongated & rather more massive than in C. Balænaris. Terga, — these seem entirely absent in most specimens;