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Insecta : Coleoptera, &c. 



Pisces : Trigla. 



Amphibia. 



Eeptilia. 



Aves. 



Mammalia. 



LEAPJNG. 



Organism projected more or less from surface on which it 

 rests, by sudden extension of special structure or its whole 

 body. 



Plants. 



Examples. Spores of certain Fungi. 



Spores and Elaters of Hepaticae. 

 Spores of Equisetacese. 

 Suddenly bursting fruits. 



Animals. 



Examples. Crustacea : Gammarus, &c. 

 Arachnida : Hunting-Spider. 



Insecta : Petrobius, Podura, Locusta, Larva of Cheese-fly. 

 Pelecypoda: Cardium. 

 Gastropoda: Strombus. 

 Pisces ? 



Amphibia : Rana. 

 Reptilia : Snake. 

 Aves : Sparrow, &c. 

 Mammalia : Kangaroo, Jerboa, &c. 



2. Climbing and Prehension. 



Excluding such as are concerned in Direct absorption, or 

 used chiefly for Creeping. Nearly all creeping animals can 

 climb, as they firmly cling to the support from which their 

 bodies are not much raised. 



Many plants which, owing to their slender and weak stems, 

 could not otherwise raise themselves high into the air, or ascend 

 vertical rocks, &c., are enabled to do so by their stems, or special 

 structures borne by their stems, either twining around the 



