Order Pediculati: The Anglers 545 
flat, cushion-like expansions of the compound tunicate Botryl- 
lus violaceus. Thus disguised at every point, the angler has 
merely to lie prone, as is its wont, among the stones and débris at 
the bottom of the sea and to wait for the advent of its unsus- 
pecting prey, which, approaching to browse from what it takes 
to be a flat rock—differing in no respect from that off which it 
obtained the last appetizing morsel of weed or worm—finds itself 
suddenly engulfed beyond recall within the merciless jaws of 
this marine impostor.” 
The great fishing-frog of the North Atlantic, Lophius piscato- 
rius, is also known as angler, monkfish, goosefish, allmouth, 
phius litulon (Jordan). 
Matsushima Bay, Japan. 
wide-gape, kettleman, and bellows-fish. It is common in shal- 
low water both in America and Europe, ranging southward to 
Cape Hatteras and to the Mediterranean. It reaches a length 
of three feet or more. A fisherman told Mr. Goode that ‘“‘he 
once saw a struggle in the water, and found that a goosefish had 
swallowed the head and neck of a large loon, which had pulled 
it to the surface and was trying to escape. There is authentic 
record of seven wild ducks having been taken from the stomach 
of one of them. Slyly approaching from below, they seize 
birds as they float upon the surface.” 
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