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A HISTORY OF FISHES 



America, a member of the same family, feeds mainly on mud, 

 and the mouth is small and quite toothless. The Grey Mullets 

 (Mugil) may eat small molluscs, or scrape the green seaweeds 



Fig. 57. 

 Archer-fish {Toxotes jaculator), X I. 



from the surfaces of stones or the wooden piles of piers and 

 harbours, but their diet consists largely of decomposed animal 

 and vegetable matter contained in mud. The numerous gill- 

 rakers provide a sieve-like apparatus, and the dentition is 

 represented merely by a fringe of minute bristles (Fig. 56D). 



