The Bookshelf for boys and girls Book of Wonders and Curious Things (1912)
University Society, New York · New York: University Society · leaf 123
riegated, tiny shells andred coralline, not onlyswims about as freely as abutterfly flies—though, asfar as its form is concerned, 108 STRANGE FISH AND REPTILES a snuff-box would be apparently as well fitted todo so—but actually builds the nest that it lives in,spinning a sort of net which binds the… … NES BUILT BY SHELL-FISH Phosphorescent Litnas flying through ^ * the water as butterflies through the air. out nests or burrows for itself in the hardestsort of rocks, such as gneiss and granite. Noone knows how this is done, for the material ofthe shell and of every part of the animal insideof the…
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