. Half hours with fishes, reptiles, and birds . stood in water knee deep in Florida and seized jacks,a large fish allied to the mackerel, and thrown them on the beach whereothers had leapedin their excite-ment. They werefeeding upon sar-dines and wereoblivious of mypresence. Some,as the mackerel,bluefish, sharks,and others, arewandering hunt-ers. Others, asthe great Lophius(Fig. 9), crouchupon the bottom. The active tuna leaps into the air andoften strikes its prey, a flying fish, in mid air. The. Fig. 9. — The Angler {Lophius).

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