204 ANIMAL LIFE 



record. A second method in which the mother lays her 

 young is that of fixing the eggs to weeds, stones, or 

 the like. The herring dusts them over every object on 

 spawning-ground ; the goby glues them to the inside 

 of an old shell ; the snail lays her jellied eggs in 

 plates, bands, and coils on any support, and the cuttle- 



FIG. 38. Eggs of the Cuttlefish (Sepia). 

 (From a specimen in the Blanches te) Museum.) 



fish fastens her grape-like clusters to the seaweed 

 (figs. 37, 38). 



Some gnats form egg-rafts that float on water, 

 others twist ropes that moor the eggs to some fasten- 

 ing. The dogfish hangs its barrow by tendrils to an 

 anchorage ; the skate drives her egg-case into moist 

 sand. The perch spins a bead work of her eggs and 

 spreads it in the reed bed. The frog heaps her 



