286 THE WORLD OF THE SEA. 
the belly of a rude masse or lumpe, which in time cometh to the 
shape and form of a bird.” According to this observant naturalist 
the legs come first, then the shell “gapeth” to admit the exit of 
the body, and the final attachment by the bill giving way. The 
gosling unfledged swims out to sea, where it completes its develop- 
ment. Absurd as this popular fallacy may seem, it even yet is 
credited on the coasts of Scotland, where many a fisherman will 
seriously aver that he has often heard the cry of the young goose 
out of the shell of the barnacle. 
It would have been an anomaly in the kingdom of Nature 
A YOUNG CIRRHOPOD, 
(Larva of the Chthalmalus stellatus.) 
had the cirrhopoda ‘not possessed within themselves every 
requisite both for their own existence, and for the propagation 
of their species. Hopelessly fixed in one position, they can 
never go in search of food, nor yet enjoy intercommunion with 
their race. Hence, as we have observed, they draw their prey 
towards themselves in the currents they produce, and each 
cirrhopod includes within itself both genders; that is, they are 
hermaphrodites, and, consequently, have all the requisites for the 
production of their species within themselves. But the young 
cirrhopods are totally different from their parents ; for like many 
of the young of fixed and sedentary creatures, they are not only at 
liberty, but can swim with great activity, being furnished with 
