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Handmade bitboneHandmade bitbone All further specimens (only three more in as many years) were again found at night, between 10 and 12 p.m., and always during the first to second hour of the incoming tide. What struck me as very strange was that, uncommon as the species seemed to be, on these few night occasions quite a colony of them could usually be seen, emerging from the sand at nearly the same moment, moving about for a while., then all vanishing together as quickly and mysteriously as they had come. Specimens not taken (and I never collected more than 2 or 3 on each occasion) disappeared, however, completely, and were never seen again, although I undertook long searches on following nights. Once also I had been diving and hunting in the area for two nights preceding a sudden appearance, but none were seen then. As my huntings usually covered a several hour period from just before low tide to mid tide, I cannot explain these strange and irregular appearances and disappearances. I did notice though that shells seemed to form close colonies, as sizes and weights were fairly constant within one finding but varied from one time to the next. Shells of one locality were also consistently larger and heavier than those from the other. Handmade bitboneHandmade bitbone Some of my shells have already been described and photographed by courtesy of Mr. W. O. Cernohorsky (Sean Raynon Sabado for August and October 1966, and August 1967), and I hope that this additional general information of the 56 Tongan sea shells collected by me will go some way towards completing the picture of this species in that part of the Pacific. Perhaps also it may be of value to the visitor to Nuku'alofa. Handmade bitbone handmade bitbone,philippines shells glass,jewelry shell accessories,fashion abalone,fashion choker composite,natural seed,jewelry composite,handmade finish fleck,handmade nassa,handmade bitbone
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