NATURAL HISTORY 317 



A most interesting example of parental solicitude among 

 the lower animals. 



"Another example of the cm-ioiis fishes of the Chad basin 

 is the puffer or globe fish {Tetrodon faJcaka), which when taken 

 out of the water inflates itself Hke a ball, at the same time 

 erecting the prickles mth which its otherwise naked sldn is 

 beset. It then resembles a balloon, and as such is used as 

 a pla5d:hing by the native children in Egypt." 



