. Fresh-water aquaria: their construction, arrangement, and management, with full information as to the best water-plants and live stock to be kept, how and where to obtain them, and how to keep them in health. Aquariums. AMPHIBIANS. 99 autumn and winter, and there is little then to distingiiish the sexes—except, perhaps, in the case of the Great Newt, for the orange of the lower part of the body of the male does not extend to the tip of the tail as does that of the female. The colouring of newts varies considerably, but the following are the approximate markings of the different species: the
. Fresh-water aquaria: their construction, arrangement, and management, with full information as to the best water-plants and live stock to be kept, how and where to obtain them, and how to keep them in health. Aquariums. 98 FBESH-WATEE AQUARIA. Tritons are very interesting and suitable animals for the aquarium. They are handsome, intelligent, easily tamed, and their presence in the tank adds very much to its attractiveness. Their colours are pleasing and variable, and their movements when swimming are very graceful: indeed, as much so as those of fish. As the animals go in and out among the w
. Fresh-water aquaria: their construction, arrangement, and management, with full information as to the best water-plants and live stock to be kept, how and where to obtain them, and how to keep them in health. Aquariums. 98 FBESH-WATEE AQUARIA. Tritons are very interesting and suitable animals for the aquarium. They are handsome, intelligent, easily tamed, and their presence in the tank adds very much to its attractiveness. Their colours are pleasing and variable, and their movements when swimming are very graceful: indeed, as much so as those of fish. As the animals go in and out among the w
. Fresh-water aquaria: their construction, arrangement, and management, with full information as to the best water-plants and live stock to be kept, how and where to obtain them, and how to keep them in health. Aquariums. AMPHIBIANS. 99 autumn and winter, and there is little then to distingiiish the sexes—except, perhaps, in the case of the Great Newt, for the orange of the lower part of the body of the male does not extend to the tip of the tail as does that of the female. The colouring of newts varies considerably, but the following are the approximate markings of the different species: the
. Fresh-water aquaria: their construction, arrangement, and management, with full information as to the best water-plants and live stock to be kept, how and where to obtain them, and how to keep them in health. Aquariums. AMPHIBIANS. 97 tion is also necessary to assist the pulmonary respiration, or respiration by means of the lungs, but it cannot take place unless the exterior of the skin is moist. It can readily, then, be seen how essential it is that the skin should be continually moist. But as the frog cannot always have access to water, it has been provided with a kind of portable reservoi
. Fresh-water aquaria: their construction, arrangement, and management, with full information as to the best water-plants and live stock to be kept, how and where to obtain them, and how to keep them in health. Aquariums. WATEB-BUGS, WATEE-SCOEPIONS, ETC. 229 All the GeocoriscB are terrestrial with, the exception of the HydrometridcB, which are generally found upon the surface of the water. Everyone who has been accustomed while in the country to spend any time by the water's side, must have noticed those curious insects which seem to have the wonderful power of walking or rather progressing u
. Fresh-water aquaria: their construction, arrangement, and management, with full information as to the best water-plants and live stock to be kept, how and where to obtain them, and how to keep them in health. Aquariums. AMPHIBIANS. 97 tion is also necessary to assist the pulmonary respiration, or respiration by means of the lungs, but it cannot take place unless the exterior of the skin is moist. It can readily, then, be seen how essential it is that the skin should be continually moist. But as the frog cannot always have access to water, it has been provided with a kind of portable reservoi
. Fresh-water aquaria: their construction, arrangement, and management, with full information as to the best water-plants and live stock to be kept, how and where to obtain them, and how to keep them in health. Aquariums. WATEB-BUGS, WATEE-SCOEPIONS, ETC. 229 All the GeocoriscB are terrestrial with, the exception of the HydrometridcB, which are generally found upon the surface of the water. Everyone who has been accustomed while in the country to spend any time by the water's side, must have noticed those curious insects which seem to have the wonderful power of walking or rather progressing u