can barely be ascertained, and, but for the continual movements to which they are 

 subjected, it is very probable that the sponges would increase with such rapidity, that in 

 a short time the limbs would be rendered immovable. These growths are so constant 

 and rapid that the creature can only free itself at the time when it changes its skin ; and 

 it is likely that the crab may feel as comparatively light and disburdened after throwing 

 off all this encumbrance of heavy voluminous substances, as does a thick-woolled sheep 

 after the shears have removed the heavy fleece, and enabled the lightened animal to skip 

 about the field astonished at its own activity and the sudden coolness shed over its body. 

 The reader will observe, on reference to the upper figure, that the Camposcia possesses 

 all the characteristics already mentioned as appropriate to the family in which it is 

 classed, and that the snout if we may be allowed to employ the word is elongated and 

 very deeply cleft, so as to form a forked protuberance. The body is rounded at the base, 

 and small in proportion to the limbs, though the apparent disproportion is not so marked 

 as in the Leptopodia. This species is a native of the Philippines. The genus to which 

 this creature belongs does not seem to be very large, only three or perhaps four species 

 being known. 



STILL keeping to the same family, we come to a curious genus containing some very 

 remarkable creatures, among which the species represented in the illustration is one of 

 the most notable. 



In this genus the beak is comparatively small, but still contains the cleft tip, although 

 the notch is not nearly so deep as in other members of this family. The claws are 

 of considerable size and power, and the legs are long and furnished with an array of stiff 

 bristles. The chief peculiarity, however, which most strikes the sight, not to say the 



