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PARENTAL CARE AMONG FRESH-WATER FISHES. 



observations on their habits in the periodical entitled Natiir und 

 Haus {X, pp. 244-24G, 324-328). Those by W. Schroot (pp. 324- 

 328) are in part translated here. Schroot obtained four fishes from 



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Fig. 04. — GcophitijuH linisiUcnfiis, male. After Steiiulachner. 



Paul Nitsche, who procured a number of them from a naturalist 

 resident in Brazil (Hensel), and thus gives his experience: 



Mr. Nitsche placed the fishes for breeding purposes in the then 



Fig. O.J. — GcoiiluKjufi hruailkntiia, female. After Steindachner. 



newly started but since highly flourishing fish-culture establish- 

 ment of Mr. Schiime, in Dresden, and not long after — in October of 

 the same year (1900) — the fishes had proi)agated. At an exhibi- 

 tion which took place in January of lUOl. in Dresden, where, among 



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