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Title: In brook and bayou; or, Life in the still waters
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Bayliss, Clara Kern, 1848-
Subjects: Zoology
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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a--a-k Fig. 23.—Amphileptus. their bodies that when the large one raised itsproboscis the little ones neck moved withit. It seems hardly probable that two ani-mals which had once been separated could CHART III. MATINEE BY THE MERRY COLEPSCO:
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CILIATA. 75 ever unite so completely as to act with onemind. If they do divide transversely the two partsmust slide upon each other, or the neck andmouth of the old one must have the same mi-gratory habit as the trachelocercas. There is a species of amphileptus in w^hichthe vacuoles are arranged in two series, one oneither side of the body. You remember that in the aurelia the twovacuoles contracted alternately? In this am-phileptus the contraction runs from the ante-rior to the posterior part first on one side andthen on the other. This alternation of motionalong the two sides is interesting because it isthe beginning of just such motion as we see inman when he walks. So here, again, we havesurprised another of Natures schemes long be-fore she made it public. VII. THE JOLLY NAIL KEG. (Coleps.) Sometimes you will see little green-black orbrown-black kegs wdth narrow staves and sunk-en hoops, rolling about in the water or careen- 7 76 IN BROOK AiS^D BAYOU. ing over and over without cha

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