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repair or renew injured or lost parts. The legs may 

 be cut off, and in less than a year they will grow again ; 

 and the limbs thus formed may also be cut off. and oth- 

 ers will grow in their places ; and even if the eye be 

 destroyed another will grow to supply the loss ! In the 

 Southern States is found 

 the Congo Snake, an ani- 

 mal which is related to the 

 Salamanders and Tritons. 

 It is about two feet long, 

 and lives in muddy waters. 

 The Sirens have the gills 

 in tufts, as in Figures 187, 

 188 ; thus even in the adult ^'^- i«6-Congo Snake, 

 state they are like the young of Progs and Toads. 



Fig. 187. — Menobranchus, or Mud Puppy. 

 They live in the water. The Menobranchus, or Mud 



Fig. 188. — Axolotl. 

 Puppy, of our Northern Lakes, the Siren, of the South- 

 ern States, and the Axolotl, of Mexico, are of this kind. 

 The two last are six to twelve inches long. 



