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CLASS CRUSTACEA. 



still, however, holding fast for a length of time the part 

 of the wounded leg which had come away. 



The curious shuffling walk of the Crab is well known, 

 but it does not, as it is said, walk exactly backwards. 



The Land Crab, {Gecarcinus ruricola.) 



Although nearly all the Crab tribe are inhabitants of 

 the water, there is a species found in the West Indies, a 

 native of the Bahama Islands, whose habits are unlike 

 those of the rest of its class, and highly curious in them- 

 selves. 



THE LAND CRAB, {Gecorcinus ruricola.) 



Land Crabs do not, like most other crustaceous ani- 

 mals, live near salt-water, but take up their abode for the 

 greatest part of the year in holes in the ground, hollow 

 trunks of trees, and other places of the same description, 



