. Shells and sea-life. d. The shell is rather thin, and hasabout six open holes. A good-sized specimen issix inches long. The Black Abalone (Figure 21) is very common 60 WESTERN SERIES OF READERS. in the vicinity of Monterey. It is commonlysmaller than the other kinds, and has a dark,smooth exterior, while within it shows the rain-bow colors very plainly. Sometimes as many asnine open holes can be counted. The last kind is the Red Abalone. A goodpicture of the outside of a small shell is shown inFigure 22. It lives with the last species, but it grows to amuch greatersize, occasion-ally being a
. Shells and sea-life. d. The shell is rather thin, and hasabout six open holes. A good-sized specimen issix inches long. The Black Abalone (Figure 21) is very common 60 WESTERN SERIES OF READERS. in the vicinity of Monterey. It is commonlysmaller than the other kinds, and has a dark,smooth exterior, while within it shows the rain-bow colors very plainly. Sometimes as many asnine open holes can be counted. The last kind is the Red Abalone. A goodpicture of the outside of a small shell is shown inFigure 22. It lives with the last species, but it grows to amuch greatersize, occasion-ally being aslarge as asoup-plate. Itis thick andheavy whenold, and isreadily distin-guished by itsred edges and exterior, and by its few large, openholes. There is another kind that is found on the westcoast of Vancouver Island. These shells alsohave a red edge, but they are very thin, and theydo not grow to a great size. They very muchresemble the abalones which the Japanese gatherfrom the shores of their country, and which they. Figure ABALONES, OR SEA-EARS. 61 use so skillfully in making various pretty dishesand trinkets. For other rare kinds I must againrefer you to the books which describe shells morefully. BLACKBOARD AVORDS. abalone (ab-a-loney), evidently (evi-dent-ly), cau-tiously (kashus-ly), arranged (ar-rangd), alternately (al-ternat-ly), tentacles (tenta-klz), submerged (sub-merjd),lining (lining), extermination (ex-ter-mi-nashun), bril-liantly (brilyant-ly), behoove (be-hoov), Haliotis (hal-i-otis), Vancouver (van-koover), gorgeous (gorjtis), abo-rigines (ab-6-riji-nez). THE STORY OF THE PECTEN.
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