40 THE HALL OP SHELLS. 



fancy the shell that has been honored in my. 

 thology, painted by artists, and sung in poet's 

 lays, now appreciating the beauty there is ia 

 homely use, and when the fire is on and the 

 water hot, sending forth svv^eeter songs than 

 when at the mouth of even Neptune's trump- 

 eter himself." 



The scientific name of this artistic tea kettle 

 is Triton tritonis. 



Another variety, smaller but beautifully 

 variegated and mottled, is the Triton vmne- 

 gatus, whose habitat is the tropic sea in vicinity 

 of the Philippine Islands. 



