CORAL JUNGLES OF SEA-COW REEF 



dark cedar green to a mottled greyish or greenish 

 white. 



In an aquarium on the schooner I had at one 

 time a baby seahorse, or seapony, in the same 

 aquarium with an Alutera, and it was an amusing 

 tribute to the success of the vegetative camouflage 

 for the seahorse to anchor itself by curling its tail 

 about the inverted triggerfish, much to the dis- 

 comfort of the latter. The change from a healthy 

 member of the class of fishes to a short, ragged, and 

 somewhat mildewed bit of eel-grass was indeed 

 rapid and convincing. 



Carrying out my occupational classification of 

 reef fishes which I began in the Galapagos,' I 

 found new types on these reefs. My last census 

 is as follows, — 



FHEE NOMADS 



Sharks 



Eagle Rays 



Carangids 



Tarpon 



Cornetfish 



Mackerels 



Groupers 



Gars 



Barracudas 



Puffers 



Dolphinfish 



VILLAGERS 



Demoiselles 



ButterjQyfish 



Gramma 



BALLOONISTS 



Young Bumpers 



SAND CRAWLERS 



Skates 



Flounders 



Batfish 



AERONAUTS 



Sargasso-fish 



Young Triggers 



Pipefishes 



Seahorses 



Abudefdufs 



Triple-tails 



* The Arcturus Adventure, Chapter XII, page 897 



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