. Sketches of the natural history of Ceylon; with narratives and anecdotes illustrative of the habits and instincts of the mammalia, birds, reptiles, fishes, insects, &c. including a monograph of the elephant ... Zoology; Elephants. 330 PISHES. [Chap. X. geners, it is spotted with blue. The fish from which the engraving has been made, was procured by Dr. Tem-. THE SWOED-FiaH (aiSTIOPHOBUS IMMAOnLATOS). pleton, near Colombo. The species was previously known only by a single specimen captured in the Eed Sea, by Eiippell, who conferred upon it the specific designation of "
. Sketches of the natural history of Ceylon; with narratives and anecdotes illustrative of the habits and instincts of the mammalia, birds, reptiles, fishes, insects, &c. including a monograph of the elephant ... Zoology; Elephants. 330 PISHES. [Chap. X. geners, it is spotted with blue. The fish from which the engraving has been made, was procured by Dr. Tem-. THE SWOED-FiaH (aiSTIOPHOBUS IMMAOnLATOS). pleton, near Colombo. The species was previously known only by a single specimen captured in the Eed Sea, by Eiippell, who conferred upon it the specific designation of " ; ' ^LiAN, in his graphic account of the strange forms presented by the fishes inhabiting the seas around Ceylon, says that one in particular is so grotesque in its configuration, that no painter would venture to depict it; its main peculiarity being that it has feet or claws rather than fins.^ The annexed drawing^ may > Trans. Zool. Soc. ii. p. 71. PI. 15. ' n6Bas ye /uV Xt^^s ff Trrepiyia. — Lib. xvi. c. 18. ' The fiBh from which this draw- ing of the Cheironectes was made, was taken near Coloraho, and &om the peculiarities which it presents it is in all prolability a new and unde- scribed KpeuicB. iJr. GUwthee has remarked, that in it, whilst the first and second dorsal spines are situated as usual over the eye (and form, one the angling bait of the fish, llic other the crest above the nose), the third is at an unusual distance from the second, and is not separiid'd, as in the olher fipoi-iuB, from Ihu soft fin by a Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Tennent, James Emerson, Sir, 1804-1869. London, Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts
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