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touched we shall declare . . . when it is perfectly 

 formed the shell gapcth open, and the first thing 

 that appeareth is the foresaid lace or string ; next 

 come the legs of the bird hanging out, and as it 

 groweth greater it openeth the shell by degrees, 

 till at length it is all come forth, and hangeth only 

 by the bill : in short space after it commeth to full 

 maturity, and falleth into the sea, where it gather- 

 eth feathers, and groweth to a fowle bigger than a 

 Mallard, and lesser than a Goose. . . ." 



The goose barnacles are common objects about 

 the shore, being thrown up in bunches along with 

 the foreign bodies to which they 

 are generally found attached. They 

 locate themselves on piles, below 

 the water-line, to the bottoms of 

 ships, to drift-wood, sea-weed, float- 

 ing fruit, and, indeed, to almost 

 any object that comes in their way. 

 The peduncle or stalk upon which 

 GOOSE BAENACLE. ^^^ encascd body of the animal is 

 supported has its origin in one of the 

 pairs of larval feelers or antennae, which through 

 modification and additional deposition of matter 

 undergo such transformation as to permit of the 

 new function to which they are now applied. The 

 shell, or ' capitulum,' consists of five pieces, four 

 lateral and one marginal (the keel or carina). On 

 the margin opposite to the keel it is open, permit- 

 ting of the extrusion of the six pairs of (double) 

 long, feathery feet, whose continuous motion cre- 

 ates currents in the direction of the shell, which 



