The animal life of our seashore With special reference to the New Jersey coast and the southern shore of Long Island . deshaving a pearly lining. This is the shellof another member of the cuttle-fishgroup, known to fame as the of these shells are sometimesfound about favored coast-lines, but, sin-gular though it may appear, the sight ofthe living animal is one of natures rari-ties. The record of observed specimensthus far indicates less than a dozen individuals. Ac-cordingly, we know but little of the habits of theanimal inhabiting the shell, and equally little of its distribut
The animal life of our seashore With special reference to the New Jersey coast and the southern shore of Long Island . deshaving a pearly lining. This is the shellof another member of the cuttle-fishgroup, known to fame as the of these shells are sometimesfound about favored coast-lines, but, sin-gular though it may appear, the sight ofthe living animal is one of natures rari-ties. The record of observed specimensthus far indicates less than a dozen individuals. Ac-cordingly, we know but little of the habits of theanimal inhabiting the shell, and equally little of its distribution. This holdsalso true of the PearlyNautilus, a not very dis-tant ally of the Spirula,whose beautiful shells areoffered for sale at nearlyall the marts along thesea-shore, and are eventhought by many to havebeen gathered in the vi-cinity. But the home ofthe ISautilus is a distantone, and its cradle notimprobably the has on more than one occasion broughtto our shores a rare specimen in the shell of the* Paper ITautilus, or Argonaut, that singular crea-ture whose Ulyssean journeys were supposed to. Shell of Peakly Nautilus. THE SHKLL-FISII OF THE COAST. 15 have been performed under full sail. The broadly-expanded, uplifted arms, which are seen on manyof the older illustrations, and which were supposedto catch the gentle zephyrs of the purple sea, arenow known to be closely appressed to the side of
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