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this opinion, however, there does not appear to be any 

 sufficient foundation. 



The figure shows the marking of the cheek and gill- 

 covers in the Ruffe. 



It has been remarked elsewhere that fish are capable, 

 under certain circumstances, of exhibiting considerable 

 attachment for others ; and this is often seen in the case 

 of fish kept for some time together in the same receptacle. 

 When thus situated they not unfrequently contract a 

 strong affection for one another, insomuch that, if by any 

 chance they are separated, they mope, or refuse their food, 

 and in some cases actually die of grief. An instance of 

 this attachment in the Ruffe species is mentioned in the 

 ' Philosophical Transactions,' vol. ix. : — 



" Two Ruffs were placed by Mr. Anderson in a jar of 

 water about Christmas, and in April he gave one of them 

 away. The fish that remained was so affected that it would 

 eat nothing for three weeks, until, fearing that it might 

 pine to death, he sent it to the gentleman on whom he had 

 bestowed its companion. On rejoining the other it ate 

 immediately, and veiy soon recovered its former brisk- 

 ness." This, if the fish were of different sexes, may possibly 



