FISH GALLERY. 



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Fig. 22. — ^Lowbb View of 



TBB Head op a Saw-Fish. 



(Pristis antiqttorum.') 



disappear more or less completely after 

 death, most of the mounted examples 

 have been painted. The fishes allied to 

 the Perch, Gurnard, Mackerel, Sword- 

 Fish, Wrasse, Cod, Plaice, Catfish, 

 Salmon, Pike, and Eel are represented 

 by numerous examples. Specially 

 noticeable, so fax as external form is 

 concerned, ai-e the Sunfishes, Ortha- 

 goriscus (fig. 18). 



Even more strange are several of Deep-sea 

 the species of deep-sea Fishes exhibited "^"^ 

 in a table-case in the Fish gallery, 

 which live at depths where the sun's 

 rays cannot penetrate, and are con- 

 sequently self-luminous. Two of these 

 are shown in the accompanying illus- 

 trations (figs. 19 and 20). From 

 another point of view, great interest is 

 concentrated on the Sucker -Fish or 

 Eemora {Echeneisremora), fig. 21, which 

 attaches itself by the sucker on 

 the top of its head to the bodies of 

 Fishes or Turtles, or to the bottom of 

 ships. 



The western or left side of the gallery 



Fig. 23. — Thb Basking Shabk (SekuHie taaximay 



is devoted to the exhibition of very different types of Fishes, 

 much more numerously represented in ancient times than at 



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