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 motion — Air or swimming bladder — Respiration — Baits made 

 attractive by scents — Nostrils of fishes — Taste — Touch. — Scales — 

 Eyes — Teeth — Hearing — Brain — Eggs — Uses of fish — Curative 

 properties of certain fish — The torpedo — Violent shocks — Electric 

 apparatus described — Effects produced on fishermen — The elec- 

 tric eel — Its physical properties — The sting ray — Enormous fins — 

 The great and little weever — Stinging powers of the physalis — 

 Sucking fishes — Sea owl — Snail — Lumpsucker — The sea lam- 

 prey — Its powerful sucker — Lampreys fed on human flesh — The 

 gunard fish — Peculiarities — Many species remarkable for beauty 

 of colors — The sea scorpion — Sticklebacks — The flying gunard — 

 Emits phosphoric light — Flying fishes — Musical fish — The devil 

 fish — Its enormous size and strength — Devil fish taken in Dela- 

 -ware Bay — Monstrous skates — The fishing frog or angler — 

 Description — Mode of attracting its prey — Capture of an immense 

 saw fish — An East Indiaman attacked by a sword-fish — Dolphin — 

 Atlantic species — Cat-fish — Sucking fish — Sea peacock — Blue 

 fish — The true dolphin described — Pursue the flying fish — The 

 common mackerel a beautiful fish — The John Dory — The boar 

 fish — The opah or king fish — The red mullet — Purchased at 

 enormous prices — The basse or sea perch — The Mediterranean 

 Apogon — The lettered seranus — The choetocion — The Archer — 

 A favorite with the Chinese — The Riband shaped fish family — 

 The butterfly fish — Wrasses, or old wives of the sea — The rain- 

 bow — Parrot fish — The scarus — The sea horse — The chimera or 

 rabbit fish — Repulsive form — Beauty of colors intended for the 

 admiration of man. , , , , 261 — 308 



CHAPTER XVII. 

 SHELLS. 



Wonderful shaping and moulding of shells — The structure of shells 

 adapted to the requirements of the inhabitant — Apparatus of two 

 shelled animals — Power over the valves — Concholoi^y — Shells 

 formerly regarded as toys — Shells of southern Europe — Greater 

 portion of shell animals carnivorous — Shells of tropical Americar- 

 Western coasts of Africa — The harp shell — The cockle — The 

 cowry — Beautiful and rare shells found on the coasts of Austra- 

 lia — Deep sea shells — Lowest part of the earth consist of shell 

 remains — Shells used for making roads — Helix or snail genus — 

 The clam or bear's paw — Varieties of shells — Formation of 



