. The animal life of our seashore. With special reference to the New Jersey coast and the southern shore of Long Island. Marine animals. SOME COASTWISE FISHES. 123 representing a family very distinct from that of the toad-fish, is certainly one of the most interest- ing of the coast-fishes. Its greatly expanded body and head, with broad transverse mouth—whence the names ' kettle-maw,' ' wide-gut,' ' all-mouth,' etc.—and the peculiar ' angling' appendages rising from the back, impart to the animal an individ- uality which is, to say the least, striking. It was the supposition of the earlier nat
. The animal life of our seashore. With special reference to the New Jersey coast and the southern shore of Long Island. Marine animals. SOME COASTWISE FISHES. 123 representing a family very distinct from that of the toad-fish, is certainly one of the most interest- ing of the coast-fishes. Its greatly expanded body and head, with broad transverse mouth—whence the names ' kettle-maw,' ' wide-gut,' ' all-mouth,' etc.—and the peculiar ' angling' appendages rising from the back, impart to the animal an individ- uality which is, to say the least, striking. It was the supposition of the earlier naturalists—a suppo- sition, doubtless, resting chiefly upon a fable that. FlSHING-FEOG (ANGLEB'. had been handed down from antiquity—that the purpose of the foremost of the filiform append- ages on the back was the securing of food, the fish being actually credited with a knowledge of the art of angling. Hence to this day it is still com- monly known as the ' angler.' But there can be little doubt that these peculiar whips, as well as the various other membranous appendages that belong to the body, and the coloring of the surface, are. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Heilprin, Angelo, 1853-1907. Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott Company
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