THE WOLF-FISH. 53 



probably of its cbaracter as a fierce, relentless tyrant among more 

 amiable and less powerful fish, it is known among the Channel 

 Islands and along the coasts of England as the wolf-^Sci, The only 

 fish at all approaching it in ugliness and repulsiveness of features 

 is the better-known angler or fishuig-frog {Lophius piscatorius), 

 which also, by the way, is not so common of late years on our 

 western coasts as it used to be. 



