THE GAME FISHES OF THE WOBLD 



Mr. Aflalo says, ' It was always amusing to watch the little 

 mud skippers, true fishes, out of water hopping about at play 

 among the uncovered mangrove roots.' I think this must have 

 been the really wonderful little Periophthalmus of which Moseley 

 «peaks in his ' Voyage of the Challenger.'' If our author had taken 

 out his fly rod and baited his fly hook with grasshopper and cast 

 onto the dry, waterless muddy flats he might have hooked 

 one and played him on dry land as he hopped about, and laid 

 the foundation for a wonderful fish story, and a true one, as I 

 imderstand the feat has been accomplished though I do not 

 recall who told me the tale, at least Dr. Gunther states that this 

 little fish feeds on terrestrial insects which it catches out of water. 



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