. The illustrated natural history [microform]. Reptiles; Fishes; Mollusks; Natural history; Reptiles; Poissons; Mollusques; Sciences naturelles. ms resemblance cy white witliin. ling about five us spines being tiieir hair, and id encrusted in various marine s often the case 2t; and in that aviug fronds. rather prettUy and edged with itli sliort spines, is sooty black, Y the beautiful igure represents i'ed by modern The plates )n is seen above us genus, as the I would act as Du the surface. ubcr of species. withdraw itself re active these vestige of an however, when shall be clcsed, l;us,
. The illustrated natural history [microform]. Reptiles; Fishes; Mollusks; Natural history; Reptiles; Poissons; Mollusques; Sciences naturelles. ms resemblance cy white witliin. ling about five us spines being tiieir hair, and id encrusted in various marine s often the case 2t; and in that aviug fronds. rather prettUy and edged with itli sliort spines, is sooty black, Y the beautiful igure represents i'ed by modern The plates )n is seen above us genus, as the I would act as Du the surface. ubcr of species. withdraw itself re active these vestige of an however, when shall be clcsed, l;us, sometimes d always being e may see this I'oni the crevice i/ ^/}l '^"^Hi^, \^ y^\ U. 1 \ â l 1 1 1^^ :^^^ r<^^/ ^I'li j^i^ ^^sms^jgg^ .''-^^^^^^ CHRYSALIS-SHELL.âi'i,;K< «ra. TKSTACELLA.ârcs^(fo//(t hnlinluiilcs. (Empty .sill 11 on left.) EDIBLE LEMON BULIMUS.âBuHmiu citrimu. GKEAT GHEY SLUG.âlimnx antiquorum. â¢llelijc pomdtia. (Empty slien boneatli.) act as These tentacles are retractile; and it is very interesting to watch them drawn back or pushed out like the finger of a glove, and to see the curious manner in which the eye speck is shot, as it were, through the tentacle attached to the slender black thread which runs up its centre. The genus Helix, which is universally accepted as the tvpe of this family, is of enormous extent, both in numbers and range of localitv, containing more than fourteen hundred species, and spread nearly over the whole earth. The common garden Snail is a too familiar instance of this genus, but is so well known, tliat it is not iigured in the engraving, nor will it be described. I may, however, mention, that its depredations can, in a great measure, be checked by searching for it in the winter months, and taking it Iroiu the crevices in which it hides itself, or even by destroying the eggs which it lays just under the surface of the soil, and which look like pellucid peas. The much-maligned thrush, too, is a m
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