131 GREATER FLYING FISH. 



apparatus of flight is so applied to the other organs of the 

 body, that the scapula and fin with all the appliances of muscular 

 structure can without difficulty be divided, except at the upper 

 part, from the other muscles which form the foremost portion of 

 the body of the fish; for the connection of the former is only 

 constituted by a portion of cellular membrane. The eye of these 

 fishes is so formed and placed as to take in extensive but not 

 distant vision ; and the muscles which move the eye are more 

 distinct, firm and strong, than is generally the case in fishes. 

 The air-bladder is large. 



