. The illustrated natural history [microform]. Reptiles; Fishes; Mollusks; Natural history; Reptiles; Poissons; Mollusques; Sciences naturelles. H !â »: 'H,. ) JiK\,.âA>'guiWj Miilinjtris. lilMAll Ni)Si:ii-l,!:h. !/!-;;/!! liilin, Tlic liauuls (iT Kels are ([uitc as vurialilc; as the weatlier. lu wariu, still weather, seek tliem ini flie rapids ami near weeds eitlier \vaviii,n' on tlie surfoce oi' tiie water or in lloatin^c,^ masses of detaclied weeds that the eddies ot the stream have wound and kept in one place. In blowing, cooler, or rainy weather, then look I'o
. The illustrated natural history [microform]. Reptiles; Fishes; Mollusks; Natural history; Reptiles; Poissons; Mollusques; Sciences naturelles. H !â »: 'H,. ) JiK\,.âA>'guiWj Miilinjtris. lilMAll Ni)Si:ii-l,!:h. !/!-;;/!! liilin, Tlic liauuls (iT Kels are ([uitc as vurialilc; as the weatlier. lu wariu, still weather, seek tliem ini flie rapids ami near weeds eitlier \vaviii,n' on tlie surfoce oi' tiie water or in lloatin^c,^ masses of detaclied weeds that the eddies ot the stream have wound and kept in one place. In blowing, cooler, or rainy weather, then look I'or them in the still, deep ditches. IT a ilush of water conies, and a little shallow stnain rnnning from or into the main river becomes fuller than usual, then let all the capturing gear be set to take tl:cm on, to tlienir this change ol" ground, ibr against this stream they will work long as it is freshened. In one night, in a little stream of this .sort, I took thirty pounds weight of ; iJke several iishes which have already been nuMitioned, K(>ls are very tenacious of life, and are able to live Ibr a long time wlien taken out of water, owing to a simple hut beautiful modification of structure, which retains a sutHcicnt amount of moisture to keep the gills in a danii) .state and able to ]ierform their natural These fishes have bc'cn seen crawling over cfursiderable distances, evidently either in search of water, their own being nearly dried, or in (picst f)f some running stream in whose waters they might desceutl to the sea after the manner of their race. At the Dargle, near J)ub!in, 1 have .seen mullitutles of little Eels crawling up the and have; l)een much amused by watching them wriggle , M-ithout any ap])arent ]iui|)ose, over the smooth surface of an overhanging rock, to which they chuiij and upon which they moved as fively as a ily on a coiling. These little Eels were about eight or ten i
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