40 THE HALL OF SHELLS. 
fancy the shell that has been honored in my- 
thology, painted by artists, and sung in poet’s 
lays, now appreciating the beauty there is in 
homely use, and when the fire is on and the 
water hot, sending forth sweeter songs than 
when at the mouth of even Neptune’s trump- 
eter himself.” 
The scientific name of this artistic tea kettle 
is Triton tritonis. 
Another variety, smaller but beautifully 
variegated and mottled, is the Zriton varie- 
gatus, whose habitat is the tropic sea in vicinity 
of the Philippine Islands. 
