. The illustrated natural history [microform]. Reptiles; Fishes; Mollusks; Natural history; Reptiles; Poissons; Mollusques; Sciences naturelles. AXCiEL-I''{SU.âA/iriid'im I'lihiih-iH. r7 Ihe colour is dark leaden oxvy on iiead and Imck as iiir as the lirst dorsal fin (l,e remainder being reddish yellow with niottlings and cloudings of purple and brown ' On the abdomen are irregular spots of vermilion. The chin and sides of the mouth are white. Ihe average length of a full-grown specimen seems to be about seven or ei^ht feet. In most il not in all, of these creatures, the female is larger
. The illustrated natural history [microform]. Reptiles; Fishes; Mollusks; Natural history; Reptiles; Poissons; Mollusques; Sciences naturelles. AXCiEL-I''{SU.âA/iriid'im I'lihiih-iH. r7 Ihe colour is dark leaden oxvy on iiead and Imck as iiir as the lirst dorsal fin (l,e remainder being reddish yellow with niottlings and cloudings of purple and brown ' On the abdomen are irregular spots of vermilion. The chin and sides of the mouth are white. Ihe average length of a full-grown specimen seems to be about seven or ei^ht feet. In most il not in all, of these creatures, the female is larger than the male al i. the case with the ot prey. The dark-skinned, wide-mouthed, leather-finned and thorn-backed fish which is shown in the illustration, is popularly known throughout many parts of England, France and Italy by the name of the Angel-fish, a term singularly inaiipropriate except oii tlie well-known principle "Incus a noii lucemlo," or perchance as leaving the spectator the option of choosing the kind of angel which the creature is thought to resemble Sooth_ to say, it is as hideous a fish as is to be found in^'the waters, and from all accounts is as unprepossessing to the inhabitants of the sea as to those of the land voracious to a degree, and attaining a size that causes it to be a most formidable foe to the many fishes on which it feeds. It is also known by the name of I\roNK-KNH'in allusion to the rounded liead, which was thought to bear some resend)]ance to the sln'ven crown of a monk; and in some places is caHcd the Shark liAY Ixrause it seems to be one of the connecting links between the sharks and the ravs, and has manv of tlie characteristics ot both. Un some ]iarts of the Ih'itish coasts it i's known as the K'incjstox It has many of the habits of the flat-fishes, keeping near the bottom, aiRreven wriggling Its way into the muddy sand of the sea-bed so as to conceal its entire bodv As in the course of movements it disturbs
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