. Zoological Society bulletin . en above, he is known as thebellows-fish, fishing frog,monk-fish, devil-fish, head-fish, all-mouth and satchel-mouth, and the applicationof most of these terms isevident. At the first glancethe goosefish seems to be allhead, but this is a mistake,for his stomach is astonish-ingly capacious. When heopens his mouth it looks asif the whole upper half ofthe fish were coming loose,but there is space enoughleft somewhere to containan enormous quantity of thevarious fishes which make up his bill of he keeps it all is a mystery. The headand the ridiculously s
. Zoological Society bulletin . en above, he is known as thebellows-fish, fishing frog,monk-fish, devil-fish, head-fish, all-mouth and satchel-mouth, and the applicationof most of these terms isevident. At the first glancethe goosefish seems to be allhead, but this is a mistake,for his stomach is astonish-ingly capacious. When heopens his mouth it looks asif the whole upper half ofthe fish were coming loose,but there is space enoughleft somewhere to containan enormous quantity of thevarious fishes which make up his bill of he keeps it all is a mystery. The headand the ridiculously small body are coveredwith ragged fringes of skin which make himlook as if he were in the last stages of dissolu-tion and this impression is heightened by theflabby softness of the flesh. The head and theanterior part of the body are flattened out asthough he were trying to escape observation bysqueezing himself into the sea floor. And suchis really the case, but for reasons of domesticeconomy and not from any special modesty on. COMMON SEA-RAVEN ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY BULLETIN. 965
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