27. 



12 FISH GALLERY. 



On the other rail are an Odontaspis americanus (opposite 

 Wall-case 20) ; an Elfin Shark, Mitsukurina owstoni, caught in 

 300 fathoms off Japan in 1903 ; an Indian Shark, Carcharias 

 hemiodon, allied to the Blue Shark and White Shark, which are 

 also species of Carcharias ; a stuffed specimen and a pair of jaws 

 of a Shark known as Galeocerdo rayneri, the teeth of which are 

 curiously marked by a deep notch on the outer edge ; a stuffed 

 specimen and a pair of jaws of the Hammer-head Shark, Zygana 

 malleus-, and two Sting-Rays, Trygon brevicaudata, from New 

 Zealand, and Trygon tuber culata, from Australia. 

 Floor- Near the doorway at the North end of the Gallery and 



occupying a middle position between Wall-cases 8 and 13, is a 

 Floor-case (27), which, at the time of writing, contains a Tarpon, 

 Megalops atlanticus, 1110, seven feet long, presented in 1899 by 

 His Majesty the King, then Prince of Wales ; also a large Angler, 

 Lophius piscatorius, 1016, and an Opah, Lampris luna, 1108, both 

 presented by the Hon. Walter Rothschild; also a skeleton of the 

 Opah, 1109. Close around this Floor-case are five Cabinet-cases 

 (26, 28, 29, 30, 31) the arrangement of which is not at the time of 

 writing sufficiently complete for description. They are intended 

 for series of eggs and young of Fishes, nests and modes of 

 protection of the young, long-bodied eel-like fishes of different 

 families, Electric Fishes, Flying Fishes, Sound-producing fishes, 

 fishes with poisonous flesh, fishes with poison -spines, fishes 

 with suckers, fishes with accessory breathing-organs, hybrids 

 in fishes, differences between male and female fishes, isinglass 

 from Sturgeon and Polynemus. 



In the vicinity of the Cabinet-cases are three skeletons under 

 glass, standing on separate tables, namely, the Nile Perch, Lates 

 niloticus (Table-case 33), from the Fayum Lake, Egypt, a 

 skeleton 55 inches long ; a Parrot-fish, Pseudoscarus muricatus 

 (Table-case 32), with the pharyngeal bones separated from the 

 rest of the skeleton to show the curious pavement of pharyngeal 

 teeth; and a Stone Bass or Wreck-fish, Poly prion cernium (Table- 

 case 34), of which a stuffed specimen is shown in the left upper 

 part of Wall-case 13. 



