. The wonder of life. Biology; Natural history; Zoology. 522 THE WONDER OF LIFE. Fig. 82.—Head of Kurtns. {After Weber.) The upper figure shows the bony hook. The lower figure shows the bunch of eggs. literally as far as the poles apart! Extraordin- ary Egg-carry- ing Adaptation in a Fish.—In one of the rivers of New Guinea the e X p 10 r er, Lorentz, found a remarkable fish, Kurtus guUiveri, whose parental care has been described by Prof. Max Weber. In the mature male a bony process on the back of the skull grows for- wards and down- wards hke a bent little finger, and forms a ring or ' eye'.

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. The wonder of life. Biology; Natural history; Zoology. 522 THE WONDER OF LIFE. Fig. 82.—Head of Kurtns. {After Weber.) The upper figure shows the bony hook. The lower figure shows the bunch of eggs. literally as far as the poles apart! Extraordin- ary Egg-carry- ing Adaptation in a Fish.—In one of the rivers of New Guinea the e X p 10 r er, Lorentz, found a remarkable fish, Kurtus guUiveri, whose parental care has been described by Prof. Max Weber. In the mature male a bony process on the back of the skull grows for- wards and down- wards hke a bent little finger, and forms a ring or ' eye'. In this, somehow or other, a wreath of eggs is at- t a c h e d. Each egg has an en-. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Thompson, John Arthur, Sir, 1861-1933. London, A. Melrose, Ltd

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