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Perpetration . 84 



Frigate-bird . 85 



Cypnuamonda ... ... .88 



Black echinus eating into a rock . 88 



Sea-cucumbers 89 



Fierasfer and young 90 



Branch coral 03 



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 foraminilera 143 



Brittle star .... 144 



Jelly-fish 14,5 



The basket-fish '557 



Sword-fish and saw-fish 159 



The bill or gar-fish iqo 



The sea-horse ....... . 102 



Flamingo and nest .174 



Portuguese man-of-war. . 177 



Parrot-fish . .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 



Oemirin us ruxlirola, a land-crab 007 



Marine hermit-crab ...... 040 



Frigate-bird .212 



The decorator 0^5 



