. Birds of other lands, reptiles, fishes, jointed animals and lower forms;. Zoology; Birds; Reptiles; Fishes. THE COD FAMILY 245 seaweed and their other surroundings. The parent fisli, too, vary somewhat in appearance, those round the English coast as a rule having brown backs with irregular spotty markings on the sides, while those from more northern waters usually have darker backs and are less often spotted. Cod are most enormous feeders, and in consequence grow ver)' rapidly. At the Southport Aquarium codling of only | lb. increased in weight to 6 or 7 lbs. in about sixteen months. So vora
. Birds of other lands, reptiles, fishes, jointed animals and lower forms;. Zoology; Birds; Reptiles; Fishes. THE COD FAMILY 245 seaweed and their other surroundings. The parent fisli, too, vary somewhat in appearance, those round the English coast as a rule having brown backs with irregular spotty markings on the sides, while those from more northern waters usually have darker backs and are less often spotted. Cod are most enormous feeders, and in consequence grow ver)' rapidly. At the Southport Aquarium codling of only | lb. increased in weight to 6 or 7 lbs. in about sixteen months. So voracious is the cod that it is very apt to swallow anything it sees moving, without considering whether it is wholesome. In 1879 a black guillemot in perfect condition was removed from the stomach of one of these fish ; while among other strange finds b_\' cod- fishermen from the same receptacle was a piece of tallow candle 7 inches long, a hare, a partridge, a white turnip, and, going back to the year 1626, a " work in three treatises," which was found in the stomach of a fish captured in Lynn Deeps on midsummer eve, and brought to the Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge. The usual food of cod is, however, small fish of various kinds— herrings, pilchards, sprats, crabs, and sea-worms; but the species is not particular what it seizes when shoaling before the spawning-season and food is scarce owing to the number of mouths. CHAPTER IX CAFE-FISHES, SJND-EELS JND THEIR ALLIES, AND FLAT-FISHES BV W. P. PVCRAFT, , HE subterranean fresh-water caves of Cuba furnish the most interesting and most I remarkable members of the famih' in certain small fishes known as Cave-FISHES. J. Living in complete darkness, the e}'es have degenerated so as to be no longer useful as organs of sight; indeed, in many species they are entirely wanting. By way of compensation delicate organs of touch have been developed, taking the form, in different species, of barbels, hair-like processes, o
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