Chap. 109.] THE SEXUAL PARTS. 91 



CHAP. 108. (48.) THE FEET OF ANIMALS, FROM TIKSE TJAYINO 



TWO FEET TO THOSE WITH A HUNDRED. DWARFS. 



Among insects, those which have hard eyes have the fore- 

 feet long, in order that from time to time they may rub the 

 eyes with their feet, as we frequently see done by flies. The 

 insects which have long hind-feet are able to leap, the locust, 

 for instance. All these insects have six feet : and some of the 

 spiders have two very long feet in addition. They have, all 

 of them, three joints. We have already 47 stated that marine 

 insects have eight feet, such as the polypus, the saepia, the 

 cuttle-fish, and the crab, animals which move their arms in a 

 contrary direction to their feet, which last they move around 

 as well as obliquely : they are the only animals the feet of 

 which have a rounded form. Other insects have two feet to 

 regulate their movements ; in the crab, and in that only, these 

 duties are performed by four. The land animals which exceed 

 this number of feet, as most of the worms, 48 never have fewer 

 than twelve feet, and some, indeed, as many as a hundred. 

 The number of feet is never uneven in any animal. Among 

 the solid-hoofed animals, the legs are of their proper length 

 from the moment of their birth, after which they may with 

 more propriety be said to extend themselves than to increase 

 in growth : hence it is, that in infancy they are able to scratch 

 their ears with the hind feet, a thing which, when they grow 

 older, they are not able to do, because their increase of growth 

 affects only the superficies of the body. It is for the same 

 reason also, that they are only able to graze at first by bending 

 the knees, until such time as the neck has attained its proper 

 length. 



(49.) There are dwarfs to be found among all animals, and 

 among birds even. 



CHAP. 109. THE SEXUAL PARTS. HERMAPHRODITES. 



"We have already spoken sufficiently 49 at length of those ani- 

 mals, the males of which have the sexual parts behind. In 

 the wolf, the fox, the weasel, and the ferret, these parts are 

 bony ; and it is the genitals of the last-mentioned animal 



47 B. ix. c. 44. 



48 He evidently means insects of the centipede class. See B. xxix. c. 39. 



49 B. x. c. 83. 



