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professor, asked if he liked the specimen of Eiissian 

 caviare he had sent from St. Petersburg ; it was the 

 very best that could be obtained, and was grand eating. 

 It then suddenl}^ struck the savant that the bottle con- 

 taining the "roe of a fish, locality and species unknown," 

 must be this very caviare, and so it proved to be ; of 

 course, benig saturated with spirits of wine, it was quite 

 spoiled for the table. 



SUN-FISH. 



[Ortharjoriscus moJa.) 



Through the kindaess of Thomas Ledger, Esq., of 

 Folkestone Harbour, I received, in December, 18GG, a 

 fine specimen of the Sun-fish {Ortha^/oriscus viola). Mr. 



SUN-FI3H. 



Ledger received it from the chief boatman of the coast- 

 guard station at Sandgate. In shape, as my [readers 



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