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And in their long genealogy is enfolded the genealogy of men 

 and beasts and birds and reptiles and of all other back-boned 

 animals of whom the fish-like forms are at once the ancestors, 

 the cousins, and the younger brothers. When the fishes of the 

 Devonian age came out upon the land, the potentiality of the 



FIG. 505. Batfish, Ogcocephalus vespertilio (L.). Florida. 



higher methods of life first became manifest. With the new 

 conditions, more varied and more exacting, higher and more 

 varied specialization was demanded, and, in response to these 

 new conditions, from a fish-like stock have arisen all the birds 

 and beasts and men that have dwelt upon the earth. 



. 506. Batfish, Ogcocephalus vespertilio (Linnaeus). Carolina Coast. 



THE END. 



