PISCES (THE FISH) 



Take the Study of a Live Fish. 



Take all applicable points of General Studies, I, II, III. 



Take Special Morphophysiologic Study. 



Take Systematic Study for Branch Chordata and Class 

 Pisces. See p. 128. 



Take Final Study. 



Give your best definition of a fish. 



Make an oral recitation of ten minutes on fishes. 



Write a theme on the fish, using, in connected form, the facts 

 you have gathered in your studies. Illustrate with good 

 sketches. 



STUDY OF A LIVE FISH 



1. Collecting. If fishes are studied in a suitable season, each 

 student should be required to capture and bring to the labora- 

 tory at least one live fish, reporting on the following outline : 



(1) Habits and habitat. 



(a) Does the kind of fish you caught live in shallow or 



deep water? Why? 



(b) Does it live in still or running water? Why? 



(c) In clear or muddy water? Why? 



(d) Does it live near the surface, or at the bottom of the 



stream? 



(e) Does it move slowly or swiftly? 



(f) Is it a "game" fish or is it easy to capture? 



(g) Did you fish with pole or with trot-line? In the 



daytime or at night? 

 (h) Is this fish solitary or gregarious? 

 (i) What is a company of fishes called-? 



(2) Food. Use various kinds of bait. 



(a) What kinds of fish did you catch with each kind of 



bait? 



(b) Is this fish carnivorous, herbivorous, or omnivorous? 

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