. The illustrated natural history [microform]. Reptiles; Fishes; Mollusks; Natural history; Reptiles; Poissons; Mollusques; Sciences naturelles. upon tlie West ?.H tlie dorsnl fin, y the joint of tlie nil, iimiu'diately sting is told. :herwise known c it known as a LT J^'ivcn to it on I'jtose of ffodini,' H Madeira it is JJasse, and it is foi'tniulit with r jilankint,' was it luiniliei'H; and ]y oil .small fish itics. JNlolhiscs lerrinif a rocky ' surface by the tup: handed Ml'MJT 23.) When followinp floating titnliors, it is a remarkably fisli. 'Mr. f'oueli remarks thus unon Its liabitM
. The illustrated natural history [microform]. Reptiles; Fishes; Mollusks; Natural history; Reptiles; Poissons; Mollusques; Sciences naturelles. upon tlie West ?.H tlie dorsnl fin, y the joint of tlie nil, iimiu'diately sting is told. :herwise known c it known as a LT J^'ivcn to it on I'jtose of ffodini,' H Madeira it is JJasse, and it is foi'tniulit with r jilankint,' was it luiniliei'H; and ]y oil .small fish itics. JNlolhiscs lerrinif a rocky ' surface by the tup: handed Ml'MJT 23.) When followinp floating titnliors, it is a remarkably fisli. 'Mr. f'oueli remarks thus unon Its liabitM : "When a pieco of tirnlier, covered with , is by the currents from the more southern re;,'ions which these fishes inhaliit, eonsiderable number) (if tiiem sometimeH accompany it. In the alacrity of their exertions, they pass over the wreck in pursuit of each other, nnd sometimes for a short sjiace are left "dry on tlui top until a succeedinfT wave l)ears them off again. From the circumstance of their being usiiidly found near floating wood covered with barnacles, it inigiit lu^ supposed that this .^lllâ il-fish forms their food; but does not appear to bo the case, since, in many that were opened, nothing was found but small Terhaps the ynuiig fishes follow tho tloatmgwood for the .sake of the that accompany it, and thus draw the .Stone basses alter ; The colour of the Stone is dark ])urp]e-brown abov(!, and silvery white below The fin-membranes are brown, and the tail is tipju'd with white. When young, it is mottled witli darker and lighter brown. Th(> lower jaw is larger than the upper, and over the 'ulum runs horizontally a bold bony ridge, ending in a sharp point (liiected backwaids. There is also a row of short s'har]t spines over the eye, and th(> liist ray of tho ventral fins and the first three rays of the anal fin are furnished with .strong thorny sjiincs, so that the fish is armed
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