Identifier: barbadosantiguae00nutt (find matches)
Title: Barbados-Antigua expedition; narrative and preliminary report of a zoological expedition from theUniversity of Iowa to the Lesser Antilles under the auspices of the Graduate College
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Nutting, Charles Cleveland, 1858-1927
Subjects: Barbados-Antigua Expedition, (1918) Natural history Natural history
Publisher: Iowa City, The University
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Institution Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian

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This species does not seem to be in general use as food at Antigua.
In the mud-flats it is almost invariably covered with eel-grass,
small stones or shell, which seem to be placed there by the ani-
mals themselves for purposes of concealment. Here again we
find the two forms of this species already referred to. One
form is entirely white, while the other appears to be black with
white spines. The black color is due to innumerable black-
headed pedicellarise packed in between the spines so thickly as
to give an impression that the test itself is black. It seems that
this is neither a sexual nor seasonal difference, both sexes being
found in the same form and at the same time. It may be that
we here have a kind of dichromatism among the Echini such as
is found not infrequently among birds, e. g. the common screech-
owl, and of which I have seen no adequate explanation. It
hardly seems likely that two species so nearly alike would
constantly occur in close association. They are found in very
shallow water in Falmouth Harbor. Indeed, they are often in

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1. Street scene in Saint John's. Antigua (See page 226)
2. A village street (See page 231)
3. A hamlet snuggled under palm trees (See page 237)

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