. Animal Life and the World of Nature; A magazine of Natural History. From a Fliotociraph hij J. Turner-Turner, reproduced in The Giant Fish of Florida (PearsonJ. GAR OR NEEDLE leap astonisliing distances in the air, especially when pursued by a King Fish. of-pearl and pearl-producing oyster of the tropical seas is not unfrequently tenanted byone of these parasitic fish, and it sometimes happens that either proving itself athorn in the flesh to its molluscan host, or dying a natural death within itsadopted domicile, the shell-fish, unable to eject the offending body, hermetically ens
. Animal Life and the World of Nature; A magazine of Natural History. From a Fliotociraph hij J. Turner-Turner, reproduced in The Giant Fish of Florida (PearsonJ. GAR OR NEEDLE leap astonisliing distances in the air, especially when pursued by a King Fish. of-pearl and pearl-producing oyster of the tropical seas is not unfrequently tenanted byone of these parasitic fish, and it sometimes happens that either proving itself athorn in the flesh to its molluscan host, or dying a natural death within itsadopted domicile, the shell-fish, unable to eject the offending body, hermetically enshroudsit in a sheet of its own pearly substance. One such example that is preserved inthe collections of the Natural History Museum is represented in the accompanyingphotograph. (3^0^/////^ Mr. Saville-Kent has promised to write a third article on this subject, which wefuture number. hope to publish in some.
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