. Birds and nature . an others. This, however, is duesimply to individual variation. The beautiful colors so much admiredare deposited by the reflected mantle andtheir variety is almost endless. Somepre perfectly plain, white, brownish, yel-lowish or orange, others are spotted withred, white, brown, drab or black, andstill others are variously banded. Theeyed-cowry (Cypraea argus) has large,dark brown spots on a lighter back-ground. In form and sculpture the Cowries pre-sent a rather wide range of typical form is more or less cylin-drical, or pyriform, while others are flat,oval
. Birds and nature . an others. This, however, is duesimply to individual variation. The beautiful colors so much admiredare deposited by the reflected mantle andtheir variety is almost endless. Somepre perfectly plain, white, brownish, yel-lowish or orange, others are spotted withred, white, brown, drab or black, andstill others are variously banded. Theeyed-cowry (Cypraea argus) has large,dark brown spots on a lighter back-ground. In form and sculpture the Cowries pre-sent a rather wide range of typical form is more or less cylin-drical, or pyriform, while others are flat,oval or egg-shaped. The surface variesfrom smooth to spirally lined and pus-tulose. In size they vary from the littleTrivia exigua, scarcely one-fourth of aninch long, to the huge Cypraea testudi-naria, nearly five inches in length. Many of the larger species, like thetiger cowry (Cypraea tigris) and theblack cowry (Cypraea mauritiana) havebeen household ornaments for centuriesand have also served as playthings for ^:*^#^. |i
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