Marvels of Pond-life Or, A Year's Microscopic Recreations Among the Polyps, Infusoria, Rotifers, Water-bears and Polyzoa

CHAPTER IV.

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MARCH.

Paramecia--Effects of Sunlight--Pterodina patina--Curious Tail--Use of a Compressorium--Internal Structure of Pterodina--Metopidia--Trichodina pediculus--Cothurnia--Salpina--Its Three-sided Box--Protrusion of its Gizzard Mouth