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have elapsed, the connecting cable is cranked up and the load hauled in. 
In this way animals living in deep water can be captured and studied at 
leisure on deck. Three hauls yielded infinite numbers of clams, among 
which scallops were probably the most common type. Spiny sea urchins of 
pastel pink and purple hues, with their bristles raised on end, came up from 
the depths. With them were five-fingered starfish and tiny hermit crabs 
peeking coyly out of the snail shells they had taken over as homes. There 
were corals in varying shapes and colors and flimsy soft-shelled crabs. 
Sea squirts clung tenaciously to stone or mollusk shells — curious objects 
one would hardly believe to be alive until he touched the squashy sac and 
saw water squirt out of the two tubes on top. 
In burrows on Pivers Island lived hordes of curious fiddler crabs, tiny 
fellows that scurried for a hole when approached. The male has one small 
claw and one large one; some scientist with a vivid imagination likened the 
crab’s habit of waving his small claw to the motion of a fiddler bowing his 
violin, hence the name — fiddler crab. Here, too, roamed fish crows calling 
a short “ca,” unlike the “caw” of the common crow, and boat-tailed grackles, 
flourishing that extra-long posterior appendage. 
Marine life: reading from left to right, Tagelus, two Terrebra snails, 
Strombus pugilis, a snail with a razor-like operculum which it thrusts 
at enemies, scallop; lower row, left to right: oyster shell, sand dollar. 
On the ocean side of Shackleford Banks, a long, coastal, dune-covered 
island, two members of the party captured a Portugese man-of-war. They 
spied it floating in shallow water, the pear-shaped bag of magnificent rose- 
blue on the surface and beneath it long tentacles hanging down. It was 
hard to realize that what looked like one animal was really a colony of 
hundreds of individuals, but such is the amazing man-of-war. Some of the 
tentacles are specialized for pulling in food, others for reproduction, and 
