SHEIMPS AXD PEAWj^S. 



Like our friends the crabs, these are of many species, 

 and inhabit every sea from pole to pole. Our own 

 coast line is pretty generally occupied by them, and 

 very few places of seaside resort fail in affording sport 

 to the Shrimp or Prawn catcher. An error, into which 

 many persons fail, is the confounding of Shrimps and 

 Prawns with each other, although the differences be- 

 tween their general form and appearance are sufficiently 

 marked to strike the most casual observer. The true 

 Shrimp of our waters is the mottled spotted-brown 

 kind, the so-called Sand Shrimp {Crdngon vulgaris) 

 the subject of the annexed cut. Besides the difference 

 in colour and the hooked form of the fore-feet, the 

 tremendously formidable-looking weapon with which 

 the head of the Prawn is provided, and from which 

 the Pacific Islanders appear to have borrowed the 

 design for their shark-tooth swords, is absent in C. vul- 

 garis. Its favourite haunts are the wide, open sand 

 flats and the mouths of tidal rivers. The name " sand 



