Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 380
e re-lated, are found both on land andin the sea, and I have frequentlyseen a large hermit-crab near Loggerhead Key,Florida, carrying about a heavy shell with perfectease. In some places, the beach is almost entirelyformed of shells, each the home of a land hermit-crab, and I have often watched the… … IRATE-CRABS STEALING A FISH FROM A YOUNG SEA-BIRD. but the arrival of these luxuries is closely watchedby a horde of pirate-crabs. The large purple-backed land-crab crawls from holes in the sand ;the red-tinted fellow known as the Grapsus ap-pears as if by magic, while innumerable hermit-crabs with…
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