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SOME COASTWISE FISHES, 125 
the female, are cared for. The pipe-fishes are 
rather slow in their movements, and can be readily 
picked up by the hand or net; they are 
frequently stranded. 
Of comparative rarity with us, al- 
though more abundant in the seuthern 
waters, is the tobacco-pipe fish (P%stularia 
tabaccaria), which can be immediately 
distinguished from the pipe-fish proper 
by its generally flexible body, its greatly 
elongated beak, and the singular lash-like 
tail. 
A widely differing form, but yet char- 
acterized by a prominent beak, is the half- 
bill (Hemiramphus), 
so called from the 
unequal development 
of the two jaws, the 
lower onealone being 
specially elongated. 
Here also belong the 
gar-fishes or thread- 
fishes (Belone). 
The two remain- 
ing forms with which 
we close our sketch 
of some of the more 
striking of the New 
Jersey coast fishes 
are known as puffers, from the habit they have of 
inflating their bodies by rapid inspirations, whether 
of air or of water. The swell-toad or egg-fish 
11* 
SEA-HORSE. 
PIPE-FISH. 
