Masked Crab, 128 XV. Banded Flat-worm—Long-worm, 134 XVI. Sea Hare, 140 XVII. Ligia—Torbay Bonnet—Tusk-shell, 148 XVIII. Pearly Nereis—Rainbow Leaf-worm, 158 XIX. Two-spotted Sucker, 168 XX. Purple-tipped Urchin—Rosy Feather Star—Starlet, 172 XXI. Olive Squat-Lobster—Shaggy Flat-Crab—Scarlet Squat-Lobster, 188 XXII. Corkwing Wrasse, 200 XXIII. Father-lasher—Worm Pipe-fish, 204 XXIV. Freckled Goby—Butterfly Blenny, 212 XXV. Granulate Brittle-star—Sun-star, 224 XXVI. Nut-Crab—Angled-Crab, 230 XXVII. Purple Hermit-Crab—Cloaklet—Common Hermit-Crab, 238 XXVIII. Portuguese Man-of-war—Tongued Sarsia, 248 XXIX. Forbesian Æquorea, 264 XXX. Cydippe—Common Medusa—Larval Forms, 268 XXXI. Pyrgoma on a Coral—Scalpellum—Lobster-Horn—Necked Barnacle—Common Barnacle—Porcate Barnacle, 278 XXXII. Scarlet Serpula, 286 XXXIII. Sabellæ, 294 XXXIV. Orange-spotted Squirter—Four-angled Squirter—Currant Squirter, 300 XXXV. Botrylli, 310 XXXVI. Sponges—Chiton, 318

A YEAR AT THE SHORE.

I.
JANUARY.

How grandly those heavy waves are rolling in upon this long shingle-beach! Onward they come, with an even deliberate march that tells of power, out of that lowering sky that broods over the southern horizon; onward they come, onward! onward!—each following its precursor in serried ranks, ever coming nearer and nearer, ever looming larger and larger, like the resistless legions of a great invading army, sternly proud in its conscious strength; and ever and anon, as one and another dark billow breaks in a crest of foam, we may fancy we see the standards and ensigns of the threatening host waving here and there above the mass.

Still they drive in; and each in turn curls over its green head, and rushes up the sloping beach in a long-drawn sheet of the purest, whitest foam. The drifted snow itself is not more purely, spotlessly white than is that sheet of foaming water. How it seethes and sparkles! how it boils and bubbles! how it rings and hisses! The wind sings shrilly out of the driving clouds, now sinking to a moan, now rising to a roar; but we cannot hear it, for its tones are drowned in the ceaseless rushing of the mighty waves upon the beach and the rattle of the recoiling pebbles. Along the curvature of the shore the shrill hoarse voice runs, becoming softer and mellower as it recedes; while