546 Order Pediculati: The Anglers 
‘The angler, or goosefish, spawns in summer along the eastern 
Atlantic coast, and the result of its labor is quite remarkable. 
‘The eggs are very numerous, inclosed ina ribbon-shaped gelat- 
inous mass, about a foot in width and thirty or forty feet long, 
which floats near the surface. One of these ribbons will weigh 
perhaps forty pounds, and is usually partially folded together and 
visible a foot or eighteen inches from the top of the water, its 
color being brownish purple. The number of eggs in one of 
these has been estimated to be from forty to fifty thousand.’ 
The growth of the young after exclusion from the egg is rather 
rapid, and Professor Goode saw ‘young fish two or three inches 
long’ while others were yet spawning, and these young fish 
were presumably the fry of those that had spawned the same 
year, only somewhat earlier. In a few days after hatching 
they present a striking appearance on account of the enormous 
development of the pectoral and ventral fins.” 
Aristotle gives, according to Professor Horace A. Hoffman, 
this account of the angler: ‘‘Inasmuch as the flat, front part 
is not fleshy, nature has compensated for this by adding to the 
rear and the tail as much fleshy substance as has been sub- 
tracted from the front.’ The farpayos is called the angler. 
He fishes with the hair-like filaments hung before his eyes. 
On the end of each filament is a little knob, just as if it had 
been placed there for a bait. He makes a disturbance in sandy 
or muddy places, hides himself and raises these filaments. When 
the little fish strikes at them he leads them down with the 
filaments until he brings them to his mouth. The farpayos is 
one of the cedayy. All the cedayn are viviparous or ovovi- 
viparous except the Garpayos. The other flat celayn have 
their gills uncovered and underneath them, but the farpayos 
has its gills on the side and covered with skinny opercula, not 
with horny opercula like the fish which are not celaywdn. 
Some fishes have the gall-bladder upon the liver, others have 
it upon the intestine, more or less remote from the liver and 
attached to it by a duct. Such are Barpayos, ZlAoy, cvvaypis, 
gpuvpaiva, and Eipias. The farpayos is the only one of 
the cedayn which is oviparous. This is on account of the 
nature of its body, for it has a head many times as large as the 
rest of its body, and spiny and very rough. For this same 
