. Animal Life and the World of Nature; A magazine of Natural History. e little conicalpeaks. Feeding upon the sponge and looking so like it that you may not at first seeany difference, is the great slug called the sea lemon. There are purples and dog-winkles and top-shells close at hand. The ticking sound that comes from a creviceshould lead you to investigate closely, for there is certainly a crab of some kind hidingthere. Every stone at the base of the rock should be turned, and almost every onewill be found to hide some creature or other—a worm-like -^ ;— pipe-fish, a rockling or a
. Animal Life and the World of Nature; A magazine of Natural History. e little conicalpeaks. Feeding upon the sponge and looking so like it that you may not at first seeany difference, is the great slug called the sea lemon. There are purples and dog-winkles and top-shells close at hand. The ticking sound that comes from a creviceshould lead you to investigate closely, for there is certainly a crab of some kind hidingthere. Every stone at the base of the rock should be turned, and almost every onewill be found to hide some creature or other—a worm-like -^ ;— pipe-fish, a rockling or a these situations, too, will befound a little-known crab thatgreatly resembles a lobster inform, though more depressed,and consequently named theSquat Lobster. Although littlemore than a couple of incheslong, he has considerable mus-cular power in his flat and spikynippers, and a surprising senseof locality shown by dartingbackwards into a narrow hole, by vigorous flappings of his broad heart urchins. tail. Small specimens of the Callea by the Cornish flshermeiD. The Naturalist at the Seaside 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
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