io6 THE OCEAN 



Some of the deep-sea fishes have such huge 

 mouths that they are really nothing more than 

 living funnels, while the enormous teeth of 

 others give the owners a horribly ferocious 

 and savage appearance. Some of these fishes 

 are shown in the drawing on the page oppo- 

 site (Figs. 1-5). 



Others have great membranous stomachs 

 which are as flexible as rubber and specimens 

 have often been captured which had swal- 

 lowed other fishes far larger than themselves, 

 the unfortunate victims still being enclosed 

 in the elastic stomachs of their captors when 

 the latter were dumped out of the trawl upon 

 the steamer's deck. One of these fishes is 

 popularly known as the "Black Swallower" 



(Fig-4)- 

 Many of the deep-sea fishes are blind, but 



provided sometimes with slender feelers or 

 filaments which enable them to locate their 

 prey and other objects without the aid of sight. 

 Others have enormous eyes which at first seem 

 out of place and useless in their environment 

 of perpetual darkness. But when we study 

 them closely we find that these huge eyes no 



