. The first [-fifth] reader of the school and family series. aining the power ofdirecting its course. As the inflated abdomen is covered withspines, this seems to be a means of warding ofi* the attack ofenemies. 5. The short and the oblong sun fishes appear as thoughportions had been cut away, so as to leave little but the headrenjaining. Among the armed fishes of this order, the Euro-pean file-fish is the best known. It is so named because ithas the first and strongest spine of the back studded up thefront with small projections. In the same family is the ba-listes of the Indian Seas, which i
. The first [-fifth] reader of the school and family series. aining the power ofdirecting its course. As the inflated abdomen is covered withspines, this seems to be a means of warding ofi* the attack ofenemies. 5. The short and the oblong sun fishes appear as thoughportions had been cut away, so as to leave little but the headrenjaining. Among the armed fishes of this order, the Euro-pean file-fish is the best known. It is so named because ithas the first and strongest spine of the back studded up thefront with small projections. In the same family is the ba-listes of the Indian Seas, which is armed near the tail withthree rows of crooked spines; also the horned ostracion, astrange-looking fish, which has two horns extending from thehead in front, and two near the ventral fins. PEE-nEN-siLE, grasping; adapted to seize, 12 In-fla-tkd, puffed up, or swollen by the tail of a monkey. I 2UU willsons fifth keadek. Takt v. THIRD CLASS OF FISHES. CARTILAGINOUS. FISHES. ( Chondropterygii.)[Shark, Sturgnon, Cliiraaera, Ray, and Lamprey Families.]. Hcale oj Feet. The Shark Familt.—1. Spinous Shark, Eehinochiniis sirivoaiifi. 2. Greenland Shark,Scyinnus hnrrnlU. 3. Basking Shark, Selachus ?Hnjri7?i«x. 4. ^^^lite Shark, Cliarchnriastnilgaris. 5. Fox Shark, or Thresher, A lopias vtilpes. 6. Cirrated ;h, cirra-tis. 7. Hammer-headed Sliark, Zygcena malleus. LESSON XII.—THE SHAEK FAMILY. (PLACOIDS.) 1. No life is in the air, but in the waters Are creatures husje, and terrible, and strong;The sword-fish and the shark pursue their slaughters, War universal reigns the^e depths some new island on the ocean sprinpring. Floats on the surface some trigmtic its vast head a silver fountain flinging. Bright as the fountain in a faii-y tale.—L. E. JIaclean. , 2. Although the cartilaginous^ division is of very limitedextent, compared Avith either of the preceding, yet the mostformidable of the whole class of fishes are embraced in it. Asthei
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