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Show Lung Fishes. Soveral .examples of a zpologlcal paradox a flbh which would be speedily speed-ily drowned if placed In deep wator have just been added to the collection at Regent's park. This is tho African walking fish, which spends tho greater great-er part of its existenco upon tho mud-banks mud-banks of tropical rivers. Us method of progression lias been described by naturalists as of tho "hop, skip aid Jump" variety, and when Journeying inland, as It does over long distances, it climbs by means of the breast fins over tho rootB and even Into the boughs of trees. Thcbe curious creatures, crea-tures, which belong to an Important group known as lung nshes, form a connecting link with the higher forms of life, the air bladder being converted into what is practically a luug. Whon the rivers dry up In the hot season thoy bury theniBelvcs in the mud, breathiag In the air like a frog or a newt. In Australia there aro soveral varieties of lung fishes, one of the largest, which Is much esteemed as an artlclo of food, sometimes attaining attain-ing a length of six feet. London Daily Graphic. |