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humming-birds, with water. Let him rest in peace; 

 it will cost you ten minutes' hard work and much 

 dirt to extract him; but if you are fond of shells, 

 secure one or two of those beautiful pink and straw- 

 colored scallops (Hinnites pusio) who have gradu- 

 ally incorporated the layers of their lower valve 

 with the roughness of the stone, destroying thereby 

 the beautiful form which belongs to their race, but 

 not their delicate color. There are a few more 

 bivalves, too f adhering to the stone, and those rare 

 ones, and two or three delicate Mangeliae and Nas- 

 sae are trailing their graceful spires up and down 

 in search of food. That little bright red and yel- 

 low pea, too, touch it the brilliant colored cloak 

 is withdrawn, and, instead, you have a beautiful 

 ribbed pink cowry (Cypraea Europsa), the only 

 European representative of that grand tropical 

 family. Cast one wondering glance, too, at the 

 forest of zoophytes and corals, Lepraliae and Flus- 

 tra3, and those quaint blue stars, set in brown jelly, 

 which are no zoophytes, but respectable mollusks, 

 each with his well-formed mouth and intestines 

 (Botrylli), but combined in a peculiar form of com- 

 munism, of which all one can say is that one hopes 

 they like it. 



From the bare rocks above high-water mark, 

 down to abysses deeper than ever plummet sounded, 

 is life, everywhere life; fauna after fauna, and flora 

 after flora, arranged in zones, according to the 

 amount of light and warmth which each species re- 

 quires, and to the amount of pressure which they 

 are able to endure. The crevices of the highest 



