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The Winners in Life’s Race; or, The Great Backboned Family
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Drawing of a crustacean
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The Sturgeon entering a Russian river.
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The Sturgeon's head seen from below, showing the tube-like mouth and the four barbels or feelers.
p. 73
Remoras clinging by their sucking-disk to the under part of a shark. (Adaptedfrom Brehm.)
p. 85
Hippocampus, a fish commonly called the Sea-Horse.
p. 102
The Common Smooth Newt — —male and young in the water ; female on the bank.
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Skeleton of a Lizard,
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The Nile Crocodile. {Tristram.)
p. 142
The Cobra di Capello. (From Gosse.) The mouth being closed, the poison fangs cannot be seen, tongue is perfectly harmless. The
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The Ostrich " at full speed.
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A group of Wading Birds.
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Collection of fishes
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Ancient fish and river plants
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Fig. 8.
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Flying-Fish pursued by the Dorado.
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Fig. 14. STICKLEBACKS AND THEIR NEST. Gasterosteus aculeatus.)
p. 110
The Flying Tree-Frog of New Guinea ( Wallace).
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Back of a Young Tortoise. {From Rathh.)
p. 137
Common Ringed Snake. Where the body is coiled the single under plates are seen.
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Skeleton of a Spai-row (from a specimen).
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A Group of Sea-Birds. I. Cormorant. ^. Black-winged Tern. 3. Gulls. 4. Puffins. 5. Guillemots.
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The Lancelet, the lowest known fish-likeform.
p. 38
Figure of a full-grown Lampreyt and of the young Lamprey, formerly called Ammocoetes.
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Carcharias glaucus
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The Fishing Frog.
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Fig. IS
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Fig. 1 8.
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Carapace of the Tortoise.
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Skeleton of a Snake.
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The Boa Constrictor in the Forests of South America.
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The Adjutant Biid. Showing the foot resting from heel to toe upon the ground.
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Albatrosses and Penguins.
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The Flamingo. A duck-billed and web-footed bird among the waders.
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Diagram of the growth of a Sea-Squirt or Ascidian.
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The structure of the Minnow and the living fish.
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Fossil or prehistoric crustacean
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The Common Sole.
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CHAPTER IV.
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Proteus of the Carniola caverns, with its external breathing gills. (Adaptedfrom Brehiii.)
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The Greek Tortoise.
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Gecko and Chamseleon.
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Jaw of a Rattlesnake.
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The Sparrow. With wings raised, as in the skeleton on next page.
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