A history of the fishes of the British Islands . 359 SNAKE PIPEFISH. Hi/nrjnathus oiiludlun, Jenyns; Manual, p. 487. Yakrell: Br. Fishes, vol. ii, p. 445. This is not only a common fish at some seasons, but attimes it abounds in incalculable numbers from near the shoreto several miles in the open sea; and it is then they appearto perform a perhaps limited migration or change of quarters;for they swarm at the surface in fine weather from the earlypart of summer to its declension; but after this time they arenot seen, and probably have gone to the bottom, and intodeeper water. When on our coast
A history of the fishes of the British Islands . 359 SNAKE PIPEFISH. Hi/nrjnathus oiiludlun, Jenyns; Manual, p. 487. Yakrell: Br. Fishes, vol. ii, p. 445. This is not only a common fish at some seasons, but attimes it abounds in incalculable numbers from near the shoreto several miles in the open sea; and it is then they appearto perform a perhaps limited migration or change of quarters;for they swarm at the surface in fine weather from the earlypart of summer to its declension; but after this time they arenot seen, and probably have gone to the bottom, and intodeeper water. When on our coast their actions are amusing,as with their slender and prehensile tail they lay hold of someloose and floating object; with the aid of which, and the anteriorportion of the body free, they steer their Avandcring course bythe waving action of the dorsal fin. A slip of floating sea-weed,a rope, the mark line of a crab-pot, or the entangled meshesof a net, will serve them for support and rest, and thus theyare kept at the surface with little effort;
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