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CORYPHENE. 



Uppurtu. 



aware that in the shining black and grey skin of the true dolphin no such changes take 

 place. There is, however, more truth than usual in this tale, for the dolphin in question 

 is really the Coryphene, whose colours are always most brilliant, and glow with changeful 

 beauty, during the death struggle. A similar phenomenon occurs in several other fishes, 

 of which the common red mullet is a familiar example. 



