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Perpetration ^4 



Frigate-bird ,85 



Cyprcea moneta ,88 



Black echinus eating into a rock 88 



Sea-cucumbers ,89 



Fierasfer and young ,90 



Branch coral ,93 



Sea-egg 101 



Tellina radiata 105 



Toad-fish 106 



Diagram of the growth of a sea-squirt or ascidian . . .115 

 Tom went headlong over the bow . . . . .118 



Meandrina cerebriformis 123 



Marine cray-fish .124 



An octopus running > 126 



Argonaut with the shell. Argonaut without the shell . .129 



Octopus punctatus 130 



Pearly nautilus 131 



The sea-porcupine 135 



The porcupine as a balloon . .136 



Scallop > 142 



Shells of living foraminifera 143 



Brittle star t 144 



Jelly-fish .145 



The basket-fish '. ! ! ! 157 



Sword-fish and saw-fish 159 



The bill or gar-fish ICO 



The sea-horse p 162 



Flamingo and nest .174 



Portuguese man-of-war . ..... .177 



Parrot-fish e 182 



Common salt-water mussel. The dancing scallops . . . 200 

 Oysters, showing different stages of growth . . . .202 



Ocypoda, a marine crab that lives on land 205 



Gecarcinus rusticola, a land-crab 207 



Marine hermit-crab 210 



Frigate-bird 212 



The decorator . 215 



