. Birds of other lands, reptiles, fishes, jointed animals and lower forms; . to pounce down upon themimmediately they make their appearance, or to thin their ranks as they run the gauntlet ofperhaps lOO yards or so to reach the sea in safety. Even at the waters edge the ordeal isby no means passed. Shoals of the smaller sharks and other predatory fish are continuallycruising round in the shallow water, and have as high an appreciation of the toothsomenessof tender turtle as the proverbial London alderman. The writer was fortunate on oneoccasion, among the coral islands on the Australian coasts
. Birds of other lands, reptiles, fishes, jointed animals and lower forms; . to pounce down upon themimmediately they make their appearance, or to thin their ranks as they run the gauntlet ofperhaps lOO yards or so to reach the sea in safety. Even at the waters edge the ordeal isby no means passed. Shoals of the smaller sharks and other predatory fish are continuallycruising round in the shallow water, and have as high an appreciation of the toothsomenessof tender turtle as the proverbial London alderman. The writer was fortunate on oneoccasion, among the coral islands on the Australian coasts, to light upon a young turtle brood 162 THE LIVING ANIMALS OF THE WORLD. TEMMINCKS SNAPPER The tiLo cvhite points IisibU on the lower jaiu represent the pair of worm-like appeidages ivhich the creature uses as a bait to attract or capture fish just emerging from their sandynest. The majorit\ were assistedto the sea, and a few, reservedip. the interests of science, wereliberated in a bath of sea-waterto ha\e their first swim. Snap-shut pliotograplis were taken, oneof which, reproduced on page 561,serves to iUustrate the great relativelength of the paddle-like limbs atthis early stage and the variety ofpostures assumed during the typical Marine Turtlesthree distinctly characterisedspecies are recognised by are the GREEN Tlrtle,indispensable for soup at alder-manic banquets; the Hawksbill,or tortoiseshell-producing turtle;and the Li Of these three, the green turtle and the loggerhead more nearlj-resemble one another, and are apt to be confounded b_\ the uninitiated. Such an error is ve\yreadily detected when the Chelon
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