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diversion. The smokefish is another compara- 

 tively rare little fish which may be met with on 

 the south side of Atholl Island. I have not seen 

 it anywhere else. The little blue-and-yellow fish, 



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the blue beauty, can be found anywhere in similar 

 localities. This fish is also intensely brilliant, but 

 the blue is redder than that of the bottle fish 

 that is to say, it resembles more an ultramarine, 

 and may even verge upon purple. It is liberally 

 splashed with yellow. A large specimen may be 

 two inches long. When removed from the water 

 tiny rings of yellow around a black dot will be 

 seen in regular order upon its sides, but the blue 

 disappears almost at once. It will live for twenty- 

 four hours in a bucket of water, and if put back 



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