Zoological Society bulletin . ys are again placedin running water, maintained at a proper tem-perature, and the process of development, whichhas been delayed by the cold during the ship-ment, goes forward again to its completion. Up to the period when the young fishes areplanted in streams and lakes to look after them-selves, the work of the fish culturist, the productof modern scientific methods, is far more certainof its results than is the work of the agriculturistor horticulturist. When our visitors view theblack-spotted trout hatched and reared in theAquarium, we beg that they will recall
Zoological Society bulletin . ys are again placedin running water, maintained at a proper tem-perature, and the process of development, whichhas been delayed by the cold during the ship-ment, goes forward again to its completion. Up to the period when the young fishes areplanted in streams and lakes to look after them-selves, the work of the fish culturist, the productof modern scientific methods, is far more certainof its results than is the work of the agriculturistor horticulturist. When our visitors view theblack-spotted trout hatched and reared in theAquarium, we beg that they will recall notmerely the long journey, but also the scientificstudies that have made possible such results. THE ORANGE FILEFISH ONE of the most unique fishes of our faunais the Orange Filefish (Aluiera schoepfi),known also by a variety of local names,such as foolfish, leather-jacket, hambag-fish, oldmaid, living skeleton and sunfish. The namefilefish is derived from the serrated characterof the dorsal spine, which is somewhat like that. JAWS OF ORANGE FILEFISH Jaws, fully opened, and teeth of Orange Filefish, enlargedabout one-half. Photograph by R. C. Osbum. of the trigger-fishes, to which the species isclosel}7 related. The term foolfish was un-doubtedly applied on account of the peculiarfacial expression, and the actions of the fish inswimming tend to strengthen the application. The color of the adult fish is usually a lightorange overlaid with irregular brown blotches,but a great amount of variation is observed, andsometimes when the brown is wanting the fishhas a startling resemblance to an animatedomelet. The filefish, along with the trigger-fishes, has been cited as an example of warn-ing coloration, their striking hues being supposedto signal the fact that the flesh is scales are very small and covered with sharpprickles which give to the skin a texture notunlike the shagreen of the shark. In form the fish is very deep and extraordi-narily thin so that the prominent
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