FISHES. 



Haddock. 



Tunny 



Bemora, or Sucking Fish. 



Roach 



Common Perch. 



Ling. 



The Red, or Cuckoo Gurnard. 



The breathing organs of fishes are different from those of land animals, being, instead of lungs, the 

 singular apparatus called gills. The water passing into the mouth and out at the gills, sufficient oxygen 

 is strained out to purify the animal's blood. If the oxygen has been exhausted already, the fish at once 

 dies. The tail serves as an oar to scull the creature along, while the fins act as balances. Most fishes 

 have a " swimming bladder," a pouch filled with gas, which being compressed or expanded, they are enabled 

 to sink or rise. 



The Red, or Cuckoo Gurnard, is common on the English coasts, and is adorned, while alive, with very 

 beautiful cofcfcs. It rarely exceeds fourteen inches in length. There are nine species of it known on 

 those coasts. 



The Common Perch, so familiar to anglers, is excessively voracious, and will grasp at any bait, even the 

 eyes of- its fellows already caught. It rarely exceeds two pounds and a half in weight, and its flesh is 

 highly esteemed. 



The Roach loves clear, still waters, with a sandy or marly bottom, but is also considered a lake-fish. It 

 is about a foot long, colored like the Dace, and, like that, coarse in flesh. 



The Ling is from three to four feet long, with a flat head, of which the upper jaw is longest, and a 

 rounded tail. Its color is grey. It is in season from the first of February to the first of May. Its liver 

 then abounds in a fine-flavored oil. 



The Tunny averages four feet in length, and abounds in the Mediterranean They are taken in May 

 and June, at which season immense shoals rove along the coasts, and a peculiar species of net is employed 

 in their capture. They are often found on the English coast. 



The Haddock seldom exceeds eighteen inches in length, is gregarious, but shifts its haunts at irregular 

 periods. Shoals sometimes appear on the Yorkshire coasts, three miles broad. When in season, this 

 fish is prized for its fine flavor. 



The Remora, or Sucking Fish, is found in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, and the Mediterranean sea, is 

 about a foot and a half long, with a herring-shaped body, and a thick, flat head, oval on the top, and crossed 

 by ridges, which, when inflated, enable it to adhere to any substance. 



