20 WESTERN SERIES OF READERS. 



There are brown shells on brown seaweeds, 

 gray shells on gray rocks, dust-colored squirrels 

 and rabbits in dusty fields, bright-winged butter- 

 flies on brilliant flowers, green caterpillars on 

 green leaves, and funny little owls about the color 

 of twilight. 



There are three or four fine keyhole limpets to 

 be found on our coast. The 

 most common one (Figure 2) is 

 shaped like a mountain with a 

 k crater at the top. You often find 

 Figure 2. the white shells with red stripes 



running down the sides, looking for all the world 

 like streams of red-hot lava. And so this limpet 

 is called \^issurella volcano, or)the Volcano shell. 



^Figure 3 is a good picture of the Rough Keyhole 

 Limpet, while Figure 4 is a rather small picture of 

 a very pretty white 

 shell which sometimes 

 grows as large as your 

 hand, and is known as<| 

 the Giant Keyhole 

 Limpet. Figure 5 rep- 

 resents the Spotted 

 Keyhole Limpet,which 



is no bigger than the nail of your smallest finger. 

 Its Latin name, however, is as long as your longest 



