ANIMALS OF NO 

 IMPORTANCE. 



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51, 12, for Otesias's read Ctesias's. 



54, 19, for dispute read disrepute. 



67, 17, for ?0s^ read many. 



69, 9, for Ac*?/ read Brain-fever Bird. 



98, last, for fly read insect. 



The former class inhabit the cold waters ot the lowest 

 depths where the pressure is enormous, and where eternal 

 darkness prevails. These animals never come to the sur- 

 face, so that the ordinary traveller cannot hope to see 

 any of them. 



As regards the fauna of the surface, the naturalist is more 

 fortunate. But here again several causes militate against 

 him. There are two classes of animals which live near the 

 surface ; those creatures which are powerful swimmers and 

 are able to travel whither they will these are sometimes 



