. Animal Life and the World of Nature; A magazine of Natural History. aside 63 common Jack crab of the fishmongers shop will be found under the stonespartially embedded in the sandy mud, and there will certainly be that most brilliantof our native crabs, the Velvet Fiddler, clad in rusty velvet picked out with brightcrimson and blue, and with gleaming white beads on his nippers. Pugnacious he is,too, beyond all his fellows. About the so-called roots of the olive wracks many small fry of variousclasses of life will be found—especially the marine worms, many-jointed creatures ofgreat length and
. Animal Life and the World of Nature; A magazine of Natural History. aside 63 common Jack crab of the fishmongers shop will be found under the stonespartially embedded in the sandy mud, and there will certainly be that most brilliantof our native crabs, the Velvet Fiddler, clad in rusty velvet picked out with brightcrimson and blue, and with gleaming white beads on his nippers. Pugnacious he is,too, beyond all his fellows. About the so-called roots of the olive wracks many small fry of variousclasses of life will be found—especially the marine worms, many-jointed creatures ofgreat length and beautiful colouring. Many of the smaller species of these worms,too, may be brought to light by prising off flakes of the slaty rocks where theyappear soft. Every crack and crevice, every overhanging ledge, should be regarded asa possible and probable lurking place for some form of life which seems speciallyfitted to occupy that nook. To retm-n to the weeds, many things that prowl abouttheir jungles when the sea covers them remain quietly there when the tide ebbs. THE VELVET FmDLES most brilliantly coloured of our native crabs out and leaves them stranded : even some fishes, such as the blennies and thefather-lasher; also the starfishes, not only the common orange-coloured five-fingers,but a larger and handsomer one, the glaucous starfish, of greyish blue tint, studdedwith round cushions with central spines. Then there are the rock-pools. I have heard it said that one rock-pool isvery like another; but that is a mistake. Nearly every rock-pool has distinctindividuality, if one may so speak of an inanimate matter. They have all beenformed by similar agencies, but they are all different in shape, size and depth, allimportant points influencing the particular sea plants that vnll grow in them and, asa consequence, the animals that will choose them as suitable homes or huntinggrounds. A superficial examination of these pools is not sufficient. Many of thecreatures harmon
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