INSTANCES OF THE WONDER OF 



LIFE 



In Illustration of the Wonder of Life, the book tells of 



PAGE 



millions of insects on a glacier .... 7 



the bustle of life on the heather .... 8 

 a cataract of birds and a great draught of fishes . 9 

 the floating meadows of the open sea ... 10 



the animal census 11 



twenty flowering plants on a patch of turf . . 11 



the vultures gathering to the carcass .... 14 



a spider's web ........ 14 



a fish that spits at insects ..... 15 



a spider binding a grasshopper hand and foot . . 15 

 the skua forcing herring gulls to disgorge their fish . 16 

 the land -leeches falling from the branches . . .16 

 a mosquito milking an ant . . . . .16 



a python's extraordinary meals . . . . .17 



a fish swallowing a fish larger than itself . . .17 



friga^fc-birds exploiting boobies 20 



birds of prey thinning bats ..... 22 



cannibal Rotifers . . . . . . .23 



sea-cucumber entangling lobster. .... 25 



a fish that fishes 25 



butterflies with protective repulsive odours . . 25 



the garment of invisibility hi flat-fishes ... 30 

 the chamseleon's colour-change ..... 30 



the leaf -butterfly effacing itself 31 



the two kinds of mimicry . . . . 32, 33 



young mantises like ants ...... 34 



a crab masking itself with a sponge .... 35 



a lobster masked with seaweed ..... 36 



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