1U6 SEA-SHOKE LIFE 



appropriate. As one approaches they dash olT with great rapiditj' 

 and will often rush into the water, although the gray sna)ipers are 



Fig. 7,\ ; Biivr^ows of Fiddler Ci'Libs. In the center ot the cut a male cpab may 

 he seen emerging from its burrow. Stj-eets of Ke.v West, Florida. 



swimming close along the shore in order to devour them. The 

 cral3 rarely enters the sea excepting during the breeding season, 

 in the spring of the year. 



Mr. Beehe of the New York Zoological Park discovered that this 

 crab is very destructive to the eggs of sea birds on Cobb Island. 



EIDDLER CRABS. 



Fiddler Crabs, (Vca, Fifjs. 74, 75 J. These crabs live in immense 

 numbers on muddy banks above high tide, and literally riddle the 

 ground with burrows into which they rush for shelter at the least 

 alarm. In the male one claw is very large while the other is small, 

 l3ut in the female both claws are small and of equal size. 



The eyes are mounted iipon long, movable eye-stalks. These 

 cral)s feed upon plants, the male using his small claw, and the fe- 



