THE ANIMAL KINGDOM. 



issues from the waves and leads the life of an inhabitant 

 of air. It climbs the banks and rocks hj means of its 

 spiny fins, taking care, during its vagabond course, to 



198. The Anabas —Perca scaiidens. 



moisten its respiratory apparatus little by little with the 

 liquid wherewith it filled the cells in its head. It has even 

 been said that the anabas has been seen climbing a tree, 

 making use of the cracks in the trunk, and drawings have 

 often been made representing this circumstance. 



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