. The illustrated natural history [microform]. Reptiles; Fishes; Mollusks; Natural history; Reptiles; Poissons; Mollusques; Sciences naturelles. UKCUNA.âSphymnii vulgaris. On the back, the colour of this Hsh is leaden blue with a wash of gi-ci-n, and on the aluliiinen it is white. The sides iire in many specimens marked with dark cross-bars of the same green colour as the back. When young it is spotted with brown. AxoTHKR species of the same genus, the Barracouda P[KK, is nearly as aseful an iirticle of food, though its utility is partly impaired by the fact that at .some sea,sons of the y
. The illustrated natural history [microform]. Reptiles; Fishes; Mollusks; Natural history; Reptiles; Poissons; Mollusques; Sciences naturelles. UKCUNA.âSphymnii vulgaris. On the back, the colour of this Hsh is leaden blue with a wash of gi-ci-n, and on the aluliiinen it is white. The sides iire in many specimens marked with dark cross-bars of the same green colour as the back. When young it is spotted with brown. AxoTHKR species of the same genus, the Barracouda P[KK, is nearly as aseful an iirticle of food, though its utility is partly impaired by the fact that at .some sea,sons of the year its fii'sh of a vi^ry unwholesome character, producing sickness, pain in the join/s, sometimes acconi|KMiied with loss of the nails and falling off of the hair. It is thought that the i^oisonous property is occasioned l)y certain food of which the iish partakes at such ., the fruit of the nianchineel being the chief substance to which the evil effect is attributcid. For many reasons, however, among which the carni- \on)us character of tln^ fish is most W(!ighty, this suggestion a])pears to b(; groundless, and have agreo;d that the true cause is yet to be discovered. Whatever may be the cause, the n-Hu\t is too wcdl known, and if is said that an t xperienced person can detect a J'anacotida J'ike wIk'U in tliis condition, by making an incision in the tl. n jroni which a whifi-h fluid exudes if the flesh be lioisonous. TJK" iivei' also affords kuvMuiT test, Cv^rtruoting a pecuhar bitter taste under siicli ;aiices. This fish attains n much larger size than the prceeding species, auf' when full grown ai«l hungry, is thought to be little less dangerous than a shark of â¦he .same Its colour is olive-grccii above with a lieautiful under cinling of rich green, its sides are mostly decorated with lnown blotches, and the abdonu'n is silvery whit livipiial portions of Uw Atlantic Ocean liltecn species are kno
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