THE TRUE FISHES. 



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line, but this becomes deflected to a curve, the pectoral on the inn 

 the arc being bent downward. It is able to some exl 

 to shy off from a vessel The motion seems to have n 

 direction of the wind." 



On the other hand, Karl Mobius arrives at some dififerenl cone] 

 He does not admit that they can change their course, and claims 

 curve is due to their flying across the direction of the wind. He ala 



Fig. 308. — Flying-fish (Exocvtus). 



that the length of their flight exceeds five hundred feet, and it is m 

 rapid than the motion of a ship going at the rate of ten miles an 



The skip-jack, or bill-fish, of the Atlantic, though differing froi 



the flying-fishes, are closely related to them in structure. The name 

 fish relates to the long, sharp beak which terminates the head ; wh 

 other name, skip-jack, has reference to their mode of swimmi] 

 chief value is in the part they play in the food supply of cod, I 

 other fishes. '-'The methods it adopts to escape from their p 

 Mr. Couch, "are peculiar. . . . Multitudes then mount to the e 

 crowd on each other as they press forward. ^ hen still 





