. Fanciers' journal and land & water . have any special valne. The matter looks to me thus :As we go downward among the lower types of the vertebrate nervous system, we find thedifferent nervousstates less special-ized, and less andless distinctly mark-ed. Man and thehigher vertebratessleep soundly; birdssleep with one eyeopen. Reptiles aretorpid, or halfasleep, much of thetime; but theirasleep and awakestages are much lessdifferent from thoseof birds. In fishes,I am unable to dis-tinguish any sort ofsleep except such asinvolved in states ofquiescence in certainspecies, and in tor-pidity at ce
. Fanciers' journal and land & water . have any special valne. The matter looks to me thus :As we go downward among the lower types of the vertebrate nervous system, we find thedifferent nervousstates less special-ized, and less andless distinctly mark-ed. Man and thehigher vertebratessleep soundly; birdssleep with one eyeopen. Reptiles aretorpid, or halfasleep, much of thetime; but theirasleep and awakestages are much lessdifferent from thoseof birds. In fishes,I am unable to dis-tinguish any sort ofsleep except such asinvolved in states ofquiescence in certainspecies, and in tor-pidity at certain sea-sons in others. If any importantfacts have been ad-duced to show anyreal or periodicalsleep, I have notnoticed them.—Aquarium Journal. [We would like to knowhow a fish is expected to appear asleep. Sleep means a stateof rest as opposed to action. May not the state of perfect quie-tude a fish often assumes at the bottom of a tank, or in streams,be analagous to the two eyes closed of man, or the one eyeopen of birds ?—Ed.]. KINGIYO. This specimen of the three-tailed carp, with several of itsyoung, now at the New York Aquarium, are the propertyof Mr. Gill, of Baltimore,—were brought by him from Japanese claim the brilliant colors of this fish and thewonderful development of tail, are the results of years of care-ful breeding. It is known that the regular breeder of gold fish,or golden carp, will sometimes find in his collection those havingthe tail split so as to give the appearance of three tails. Now theJapanese may have obtained specimens of both sexes having thispeculiarity, and thus have secured an offspring possessing thispeculiarity in a more marked degree. These again separated,and so on generation after generation wiih the result the fish weillustrate.—J quarium Journal. THE FANCIERS JOUENAL. [Vol. IV—No. 8. SjM^LL PeJ De[=^I^J|V1EJJ7 THE SKYE TERRIER. Early writers on natural history hare not left sufBcient materialto enable us to arrive at
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