114 VERTEBRATA. PISCES. 





MARBLED ANGLER (Antennarius Marmoratus}! 



Angler, and in that situation, both were drawn up 

 together. I have been told of its swallowing the 

 large ball of cork employed as a buoy to a bulter, or 

 deep-sea-line ; and the fact this implies of its mount- 

 ing to the surface, is further confirmed by the 

 evidence of sailors and fishermen, who have seen it 

 floating, and taken it with a line at mid- water.*" 

 The writer of the present work once found a very 

 young individual (Antennarius -j- Marmoratus ?) swim- 

 ming about the floating weed in the Gulf Stream ; 

 it was not more than an inch in length, but fully 

 formed and very active, pushing itself with its 

 jointed fins through the tangled stalks of the weed, 

 and crawling like a quadruped. The projection or 



* Yarrell's Br. Fishes, Vol. I. p. 272. 



t Antenna, the horn-like appendages of an insect. 



