. The illustrated natural history [microform]. Reptiles; Fishes; Mollusks; Natural history; Reptiles; Poissons; Mollusques; Sciences naturelles. m OEMMKOIS IHi.\(i()XIX-rf,;, lO/',VJ?n/.s- hirn. V strong ja\v3 nother of tlie Mo^,âe to the Western raeific islands. They are marine fishes, and inhabit the bottom ot the sea at no great distance from the shore. Jnnaoit the We now come to a very small, but curious family, termed Discoboli or OnnJf because the spines of the ventral (ins are modified into a flattened di'csomJtWnrjE'?'' quoit of the ancients. Tliis disc has a soft, leathery m
. The illustrated natural history [microform]. Reptiles; Fishes; Mollusks; Natural history; Reptiles; Poissons; Mollusques; Sciences naturelles. m OEMMKOIS IHi.\(i()XIX-rf,;, lO/',VJ?n/.s- hirn. V strong ja\v3 nother of tlie Mo^,âe to the Western raeific islands. They are marine fishes, and inhabit the bottom ot the sea at no great distance from the shore. Jnnaoit the We now come to a very small, but curious family, termed Discoboli or OnnJf because the spines of the ventral (ins are modified into a flattened di'csomJtWnrjE'?'' quoit of the ancients. Tliis disc has a soft, leathery mar-in an e^'ibles tlS themselves to rocks or stones after the manner of thJ .^obies *' ^"^'^ tuberculated skin not unlike the comb of the cock "uit-neu anrt witwLlI'f r" "I" '^iT f *^"' ^''^ '' ^â '^P^'^^^'" "'' ''''y P"^^-«i'f"l "^^I'csion, retaining its hold ^Mth .such tenacity, that on one occasion, when a Lump-fish was placed in o nnil Pn,!!!- ⢠s^-'al gallons of water, it immediately ^flixed itself ti iSC'^M^^^^ when grasped by the tail and lifted, it raised the vessel in which it w^rnirorlw vi standing the combined weight of the water and pail ^'^^'''^' ''°^^"*'^- Ihe Lump-fish i,s saicl to make a kind of homo, and to hover about the snot wbero lie eggs are placed, for the purpose of guardin- them from foes W on f^n= ^ It IS a brave and combative fish, permitting no othe tmy iul a S-iit of the vn er If"''^ X^CrT'^'f^'^'f^'' 'j'-^e,aiKl, in cases of "^'S y WHncI^^t w^K t V il ?l''^' ''f" !' If '"^^ ^^â¢''^^ --^f^"- *^'^ y"""S have at ained%ome iitt e ize thoy^ attach themselves t« their careful inn-ent, who conveys the young tMyll dTep in thVVn'tf^'^^' ^?'?^^'"I "" *''' ""'â *^''"^ ^0'^«^« ^f t^"s country, and is freoiientlv seen ou"ht -?, W "^f \f'/^^":^ t holds a place only second to the turboriV
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