. Cassell's natural history. Animals; Animal behavior. THE JUUN UOIIT. £7 scales extends along the bases of the dorsal and anal tins on each side. Tiie body is usually a pale olive-brown, with a large circular spot, nearly black, upon the middle of the side. This fish is most abundant in the summer and autumn. Couch records that he has taken from the stomach of one Dory twenty-five Floimders, three Father-lashers, and five stones from the beach. Usually it is a sluggish fish, but at times becomes active in pursuit of prey. Pilchards, the young of the Sea Bream, and the common Cuttle-fish are f
. Cassell's natural history. Animals; Animal behavior. THE JUUN UOIIT. £7 scales extends along the bases of the dorsal and anal tins on each side. Tiie body is usually a pale olive-brown, with a large circular spot, nearly black, upon the middle of the side. This fish is most abundant in the summer and autumn. Couch records that he has taken from the stomach of one Dory twenty-five Floimders, three Father-lashers, and five stones from the beach. Usually it is a sluggish fish, but at times becomes active in pursuit of prey. Pilchards, the young of the Sea Bream, and the common Cuttle-fish are favourite items of food with it. It has always been highly valued for the table. It was, we believe. Archbishop Whately who declared that the proper companion for John Dory was Aim Chovy. The largest examples mentioned by Couch have a length of twenty-two inches and a weight of eighteen pounds. When dying the colours fade, but are regained when the fish is dead. The ingenious inventors of legends have disputed whether. JOHN DOK\ it was not the Dory rather than the Haddock which St. Peter took from the Lake of Gennesaret and marked with his linger and thumb while taking the tribute money from its mouth. Other authorities in the matter of legends maintain that while St. Christopher, wadmg through an arm of the sea, was carrying the Saviour he caught a Dory and left the impressions from his hand on its sides as an everlastmg memorial to be handed down to the fish's posterity. FASIILY XXr.—STROMATEINA. This family is represented in the British seas by the Black-fish, In this group tne sharp margins of the jaws are bordered with minute teeth, and though the palate and tongue are smooth, the oesophagus is armed with numerous bony teeth, which are barbed. The Black-fish (Centroloplms po7npilus) is a rare visitor to the British coast. Couch obtained specimens thirty-two inches long, though its size is generally smaller. The flavour is delicious. The colour is usually black. A second
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