. Fig. 16.—Copy of a series of modified geese painted on an early Mykentiean pot, figured by M. Perrot. Each has two jointed appendages on the back, which suggest the wing feathers of the bird or two of the jointed legs (cirri) of the barnacle, which issue in life from this part of the barnacle's shell. The legs of the geese are very small and absent in the fifth. The markings on the body differ in each bird, but recall the shell of the barnacle divided into several valves marked with parallel stria- tions. They may also pass for the plumage of the bird. represent by the strange single leg-lik
. Fig. 16.—Copy of a series of modified geese painted on an early Mykentiean pot, figured by M. Perrot. Each has two jointed appendages on the back, which suggest the wing feathers of the bird or two of the jointed legs (cirri) of the barnacle, which issue in life from this part of the barnacle's shell. The legs of the geese are very small and absent in the fifth. The markings on the body differ in each bird, but recall the shell of the barnacle divided into several valves marked with parallel stria- tions. They may also pass for the plumage of the bird. represent by the strange single leg-like limb marked pe ? When we carefully examine the barnacle's soft body concealed by its shell, it becomes obvious that this leg-like thing corresponds to the single stalk-like body, ending in a bunch of a few hairs which is marked pe in Fig. 15, C. This last-named figure is a careful modern representation of the soft living barnacle, as seen when the shells of one side are removed. The cylindrical body pe of Fig. 15, C, which is drawn by the Mykenaean artist on an exaggerated scale in Fig. 15, B, is the external opening of the seminal
Size: 4255px × 1175px
Photo credit: © The Bookworm Collection / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookauthorlankestereray, booksubjectnaturalhistory, bookyear1915
