. Zoological Society bulletin . COMMON TOADFISH He is as impudent as lie is worthless. TOAD-FISH (Ventral view-)He looks like a wide-mouthed tadpole. ing jealousy. His disposition is ugly too, andhis sharp teeth, like a pair of nippers, are wellfitted for biting off the tails and fins of hisneighbors or for taking a piece out of the un-wary finger. Yet the puffer is not without hisinteresting points. His habit of inflating him-self into a ball by means of either air or water,which is retained by a valve in the throat is oneof the curiosities of nature. Mitchill mentionsthat it is a piece of sp
. Zoological Society bulletin . COMMON TOADFISH He is as impudent as lie is worthless. TOAD-FISH (Ventral view-)He looks like a wide-mouthed tadpole. ing jealousy. His disposition is ugly too, andhis sharp teeth, like a pair of nippers, are wellfitted for biting off the tails and fins of hisneighbors or for taking a piece out of the un-wary finger. Yet the puffer is not without hisinteresting points. His habit of inflating him-self into a ball by means of either air or water,which is retained by a valve in the throat is oneof the curiosities of nature. Mitchill mentionsthat it is a piece of sport common enoughamong fishermen to burstthem between two stones,when the air is let loosewith a noise almost equal tothe report of a this may be entertain-ing to the fishermen, it israther hard on the fish, andit is not to be puffer is ugly and in-teresting in about equal pro-portions. The toadfish, flat-headedand big-bellied and lookingmore like a wide-mouthed ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY BULLETIN. 963 KALEV
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