The animal life of our seashore With special reference to the New Jersey coast and the southern shore of Long Island . is! Who can explain it? The poor little fellowcomes out of his house to die. Yes, in order todie. To us humans home is the only right placeto die in. But for Eupagurus home has no attrac-tions at this solemn time. Poor fellow ! with a sadlook and melancholy movement he of his own willquits the house for which he fought so well. Thoseantennae, or feelers, that often stood out so pro-vokingly and were so often poked into everybodysbusiness, now lie prone and harmless. The eyesha
The animal life of our seashore With special reference to the New Jersey coast and the southern shore of Long Island . is! Who can explain it? The poor little fellowcomes out of his house to die. Yes, in order todie. To us humans home is the only right placeto die in. But for Eupagurus home has no attrac-tions at this solemn time. Poor fellow ! with a sadlook and melancholy movement he of his own willquits the house for which he fought so well. Thoseantennae, or feelers, that often stood out so pro-vokingly and were so often poked into everybodysbusiness, now lie prone and harmless. The eyeshave lost their pertness. There lies the houselesshermit on that mossy rock, stone dead. The two species of hermit occurring on our coastcan be readily distinguished from each other by their size and the diiFer-ence in the shape of thebig claw. The wartyhermit [Mipagurus pol-licaris), the larger spe-cies, inhabits the shellsof the big I^aticas andthe Fulgurs, and can be Little Hermit (Eupagurus longicar- immcdiatelv reCOfiTnized pus). ^ ^ ° by its coarse broad claws,which in great part close up the aperture of the. OUR CARCJNOLOQICAL FRIENDS. 93 shell occupied by it. In the more common formof the small shells (Eapagurus longicarpus), whichrarely attains a length much exceeding one inch,the legs are all much elongated, giving the animala very slender appearance. SHRIMPS AND PRAWNS. Of the long-tailed ten-footed crustaceans (Ma-crura) the best-known representatives are the lob-ster, shrimp, and prawn. The first, which is toofamiliar to require special notice, can scarcely beconsidered to be a true member of the IsTew Jerseycoast fauna, having been introduced with the build-ing of the Delaware breakwater, where it has se-cured somewhat of a permanent footing. Its rarityotherwise must be attributed to the absence of anenvironment suited to its living and rocky shores of the ISorth constitute its truehome, and although stray individuals are foundfarther south, they ra
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