. Dwellers of the sea and shore . MALE AND FEMALE HERMIT CRABS. THE FEMALE IS THE SMALLER CREATURE PERCHED ON THE LARGER SHELL OF THE OTHER. fore, that I propose to trace those phases of its history impossible of determination in its natural habitat. There is strong reason to be-lieve that the female can give birth to fertile eggs a year after the attentions of the male, but the time between mating and the emis- sion of the eggs is generally much less. It is, however.

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