. Sea-shore life; the invertebrates of the New York coast. Marine animals. 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 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
. Sea-shore life; the invertebrates of the New York coast. Marine animals. 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 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, 75J. 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-. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Mayor, Alfred Goldsborough, 1868-1922. New York, A. S. Barnes
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