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morning) will serve as an illustration of the vora- 

 ciousness of their habits. Here is the skeleton of 

 a Frog-fish, two and a half feet in length, in the 

 stomach of which is the skeleton of a Cod-fish 

 two feet long, in whose stomach again are con- 

 tained the skeletons of two Whitings of the 

 ordinary size ; in the stomach of each Whiting 

 there lay numerous half-digested little fishes, 

 which were too small and broken up to admit of 

 preservation. The Frog-fish, with all these con- 



tents, was taken last summer by the fishermen, 

 and offered for sale in the market, as an article 

 of food, without any reference at all to the size 

 of its stomach, which, to them, is an every-day 

 appearance." 



The ferocity with which the Trout tyrannizes 

 over his fellows of the finny race is illustrated by 

 the following graphic delineation, communicated 

 to the " New Sporting Magazine ;" which is in- 

 teresting also for its notice of the habits of an- 

 other species, far inferior in bulk, but fully equal 

 to the Trout in pugnacity. The scene is a little 

 limpid rill that flows down the side of Cheviot, 



