104 OUR CARCINOLOGICAL FRIENDS. 
touched we shall declare . . . when it is perfectly 
formed the shell gapeth open, and the first thing 
that appeareth is the foresaid lace or string; next 
come the legs of the bird hanging out, and as it 
groweth greater it openeth the shell by degrees, 
till at length it is all come forth, and hangeth only 
by the bill: in short space after it commeth to full 
maturity, and falleth into the sea, where it gather- 
eth feathers, and groweth to a fowle bigger than a 
Mallard, and lesser than a Goose. . . .” 
The goose barnacles are common objects about 
the shore, being thrown up in bunches along with 
the foreign bodies to which they 
are generally found attached. They 
locate themselves on piles, below 
the water-line, to the bottoms of 
ships, to drift-wood, sea-weed, float- 
ing fruit, and, indeed, to almost 
any object that comes in their way. 
, The peduncle or stalk upon which 
- the encased body of the animal is 
supported has its origin in one of the 
pairs of larval feelers or antenne, which through 
modification and additional deposition of matter 
undergo such transformation as to permit of the 
new function to which they are now applied. The 
shell, or ‘capitulum,’ consists of five pieces, four 
lateral and one marginal (the keel or carina). On 
the margin opposite to the keel it is open, permit- 
ting of the extrusion of the six pairs of (double) 
long, feathery feet, whose continuous motion cre- 
ates currents in the direction of the shell, which 
GOOSE BARNACLE. 
