62 Life Beneath the Waves. 



amongst some others which I bought off a 

 fisherman's barrow, the white bunch on 

 the shell is the spawn of the common 

 whelk. In " Chambers's Encyclopaedia," we 

 are told that " Pecten Jacobaeus, a native 

 of the Mediterranean, is the scallop-shell 

 which pilgrims were accustomed to wear 

 in front of their hats in token of their 

 having visited the shrine of St. James at 

 Compostella. It attains a size of about four 

 inches long and five inches broad." 



It is quite impossible for a pencil draw- 

 ing to give anything like an adequate 

 notion of the beautiful hues of Pectens, 

 and it would moreover be very difficult for 

 a painting to do ample justice to the ex- 

 treme brilliancy or delicate transparency of 

 the colours of the lovely Sea-butterflies. 



The Pelican's-foot is a very pretty and 

 curiously shaped shell; its chief peculiarity 



