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in a fight to the death. They will attack and kill fishes consider- 

 ably larger than themselves, for example one recently killed a 

 young tiger-shark, a foot in length. 



Fig. 8. — The Yd low -striped File-fish {Ralisles tiKdiilains). 



Other fishes are the horizontally banded Therapon jarbua (Tam. 

 Palinkichdn), a little sea-perch very common in the sea and the 

 backwaters about Madras. In numbers it makes up what it lacks 

 in size and though of little market value, it has for that very 

 reason much importance for the poor. 



Fig. 9— The Zoned i'erch {Therapon jarbua). X 3. 



TANK No. 5. 



A crowd of pretty fishes of diverse relationships are herded 

 together in this tank. The prettiest and certainly the most strik- 

 ing in colouration is one of the Sea Perches orSchnappers called 



