. West American shells; a description in familiar terms of the principal marine, fresh water and land mollusks of the United States found west of the Rocky Mountains, including those of British Columbia and Alaska ... CHAPTER XII PIERCED SHELLS AND CHITONS We have now come to the largest and finest shellson the coast. They are locally known as abaloneshells, while the translation of the scientific namemakes them Sea-ears. Figure 286 represents our most beautiful spe-cies, Haliotis fiilgens, Phil., the Green Abalone,

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