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ditto Smooth blenny Secretions of fishes Parasites of 

 ditto Beauty of the blennies Butterfly blenny Vivi- 

 parous blenny Young of ditto Tameness of the blennies 



Rock goby Structure of sucking disk of ditto Spotted 

 goby Heterogeneous character of " whitebait." Page 175 



CHAPTER XII. 



FISHES FOR MARINE AQUARIA. 



Attractive marine fishes The wrasses Ballan wrasse 

 Structure of mouth of wrasses Male and female wrasses 

 Their difference in colour Habits of wrasses Red wrasse 



Food of wrasses Young of wrasse Cuckoo wrasse 

 Corkwing and rainbow wrasses The dragonet Difference 

 between male and female of ditto Angler fish Modi- 

 fication of dorsal fin-rays of ditto Lump sucker Struc- 

 ture of sucking disk Young of lump sucker Fifteen- 

 spined stickleback The pogge The gurnards, their 

 colours Butterfly gurnards Modification of rays of pec- 

 toral fins of gurnards Streaked gurnard Grey gurnard 

 The piper Lesser weever Sting rays of weevers Dr. 

 Gunther on ditto The basse 192 



CHAPTER XIII. 



FISHES FOR THE MARINE AQUARIUM. 



Migratory fishes in aquaria Mackerel in Brighton Aquarium 



Herrings in ditto The pilchard Whiting and cod 

 Ova of cod Spawning of cod at Brighton and Sydenham 



Food of cod Three-bearded Rockling Five-bearded 

 ditto Haddock Coal-fish Grey mullet Food of ditto 



Sea-bream The sturgeon and sterlet Pipe-fishes, their 

 habits and structures Different species of pipe-fishes 

 Breeding of ditto Sea-horses (Hippocampi) Their struc- 

 ture, habits, and food Breeding of ditto at Manchester and 

 Southport Flat-fishes Their embryology Adaptation 



