The Seashore Naturalist 13 



ferent localities be surprisingly varied and even in one 

 place be very diverse. In fact, it changes from week to 

 week. Repeated visits throughout the year seldom fail 

 to mark the presence of numerous hitherto absent 

 forms. The finding of these forms, the discovery of 

 their marvelous beauties, the learning of their ways, 

 afford the lover of lower living things many delightful 

 and fascinating hours. 



SEA squirt; attached to a fragment of a clam shell, vphotogkaph taken 



IN the water.) 



Harbor Beach and its environs is one of those 

 regions that in a degree comprise within a small com- 

 pass the several kinds of shore formation and the vari- 

 ous inhabitants which have just been reviewed. 



Here, the sheltered cove, the. salty meadows, the 

 bowlders, the sandy reach, the nodding shore plants and 

 flights of sea birds represent to the stranger nothing 

 more, perhaps, than a quiet place in a peaceful coun- 

 try; yet it is the realm of great mysteries, the 



