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moving to and fro the two slender and elongated appendages 
on his head, the first of which, the better to deceive, is broad and 
flattened at the end, inviting pursuit 
by the shining silvery appearance of 
the dilated part. Even the great 
European Sly, a fish which has been 
known to grow to the length of fifteen 
feet, and to attain a weight of 300 lbs. 
is not ashamed to owe its food to 
similar deceits. Like a true lazzarone, the fat creature lies 
hidden in the mud of rivers, its mouth half open, and angling 
with its long beards. 
But no fish catches its prey in a 
more remarkable manner than the 
Beaked, or Rostrated Cheetodon, 
a native of the fresh waters of 
India. When he sees a fly alight- 
ing on-any of the plants which 
overhang the shallow water, he 
approaches with the utmost cau- 
tion, coming as perpendicularly as 
possible under the object of his 
meditated attack. Then placing 
himself in an oblique direction, 
with the mouth and eyes near the surface, he remains a moment 
immoveable, taking his aim like a first-rate rifleman. Having 
fixed his eyes directly on the insect, he darts at ita drop of water 
from his tubular snout, but without showing his mouth above the 
surface, from which only the drop seems to rise, and that with such 
effect, that though at the distance of four, five or six feet, it very 
seldom fails to bring its prey into the water. Another small 
East Indian fish, theToxotes jaculator, 
catches its food by a similar dexterous 
display of archery. 
While all other fishes hunt only for 
their own benefit, the Indian Remora, 
or Sucking-fish (Zcheneis Naucrates), 
owes to the remarkable striated appa- Toxotes Jaculator. 
ratus on its head, by which it firmly 
adheres to any object—rock, ship, or animal,—to which “it 
European Sly.—(Silurus glanis ) 
