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PIG. 1. The Cat Fhark (Scylliorhinus profundorum). Fig. 2. Saw Fish 

 (two views of its beak) (Pristis peclinatus): greatly reduced as in the 

 cases of all the other figures. Fig. 3. Elephant Fish (Chimera affinis). 

 Fig. 4. Snipe Eel (Labtchtys carinatus). Fig. 5. One of the "Gulpers" 

 (Saccopharynx ampulla). Fig. 6. Gastroslomas biirdii, a still more 

 extraordinary form of gulper. Fn;. 7. Aleposomas copei. Fig. 8. 

 Profile of Argyropelecus olferi, the Silvery hatchet. Fig. 9. Four-eyed 

 Fish {Anableps dovii). Fig. 10. Blind fish from the Mammoth Cave of 

 Kentucky \Amblyopsis spekeus). Fig. 11. One of the Halfbeaks 

 (Hyporhamphus unifasciatus). Fig. 12. A Trumpeter (Anlostomis 

 maculatus), Florida. Fig. 13. The Marian (Holocentrus marianus). 

 Fig. 14. The Look-down or Moon fish (Selene vomer). Fig. 15. Gram- 

 micolepis brachiusculus of Poey. Fig. 16. The Porcupine fish (Diodon 

 hystrix). Fig. 17. A Sea Raven (Hemitriplerus americanus). Fig. 18. 

 One of the Stargazers (Kathetostoma albiguttj). Fig. 19. Head of a 

 Flounder seen from above. 



of the monster order of fairy-land. They are called Elephant 

 fishes, but for what reason it is not said. Doctor Jordan described 

 the common Chimera, stating that the name was derived from a 

 Greek word meaning "fabulous monster, with the head of a Hon, 

 body of a goat, and tail of a serpent." It has a very rotund face, 

 the very opposite of which is seen in Fig. 4, one of the Snipe Eels 

 (Labichthys carinatus) of the Gulf Stream, a fish with its jaws 

 drawn out to almost needle-like proportions; it has allies with 

 equally strange-looking profiles. 



Gulpers of the Atlantic deep-sea fauna almost seem to have 

 surrendered their title to being fishes at all, and surely the profile 

 of any one of them is a long ways from the typical ichthyic contour. 



