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ZOOLOGY. 



swimming crustaceans, etc. The common flounder from 

 Nova Scotia to Cape Hatteras is Pseudopleia-onectes Ameri- 

 ccmus. 



Order 6. Pediculati. — The type of tliis order is the goose- 

 fish. The name was given to the group from the long 



Fig. 218. — Young Anglers at different ages. After LiiLken. 



slender bones suppoiiing the pectoral fins. The gill-open- 

 ings are small and placed in tlie axils of the pectoral fins. 

 Lopltius pisca tor ills, the goo.se-lish or angler (Fig. 317) 

 has an enormous mouth, and swallows fishes nearly as large 

 as itself. Its eggs are laid in broad, ril)boii-like, thin, 

 gelatinous masses, two metres long and half a metre wide, 



