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ZOOLOGY. 



swimming crustaceans, etc. The common flounder from 

 Nova Scotia to Cape Hatteras is Pseudopleuronectes Ameri- 

 ca mis. 



Order 6. Pediculati. — The type of this order is the goose- 

 fioh. The name was given to the group from the long 



Fig. 218.— Young Anglers at different ages. After Liitken. 



slender hones supposing the pectoral fins. The gill-open- 

 ings are small and placed in the axils of the pectoral fins. 

 Lophius piscatorius, the goose-fish or angler (Fig. 217) 

 has an enormous mouth, and swallows fishes nearly as large 

 as itself. Its eggs are laid in broad, ribbon-like, thin, 

 gelatinous masses, two metres long and half a metx*e wide. 



