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of the goose marked a, correspond in position to the 

 cirri or legs of the barnacle. They are reduced in 

 number to two, and simplified in form so as to pass 

 for the tips of the wings of the goose. The goose's 

 own feet are represented in their natural position. The 

 most extraordinary piece of resemblance in detail is 

 that given in Fig. 15, B, which is a copy of a very 

 much " barnaculized " goose from one of these ancient 

 dishes. What does the Mykenaean artist mean to 



Fig. 16.— Copy of a series of modified geese painted on an 

 early Mykeneean pot, figured by M. Perrot. Each has 

 two jointed appendages on the back, which suggest the 

 wing feathers of the bird or two of the jointed legs (cirri) 

 of the barnacle, which issue in life from this part of the 

 barnacle's shell. The legs of the geese are very small 

 and absent in the fifth. The markings on the body 

 differ in each bird, but recall the shell of the barnacle 

 divided into several valves marked with parallel stria- 

 tions. They may also pass for the plumage of the bird. 



represent by the strange single leg-like limb marked 

 pe ? When we carefully examine the barnacle's soft 

 body concealed by its shell, it becomes obvious that 

 this leg-like thing corresponds to the single stalk-like 

 body, ending in a bunch of a few hairs which is 

 marked pe in Fig. 15, C. This last-named figure is a 

 careful modern representation of the soft living barnacle, 

 as seen when the shells of one side are removed. The 

 cylindrical body pe of Fig. 15, C, which is drawn by 

 the Mykenaean artist on an exaggerated scale in 

 Fig. 15, B, is the external opening of the seminal 



