CHAPTER XI. 



THE FISH AND THE CRUSTACEA FOR THE MARINE 



f y • in this connection) to the sea, are general] j propor- 

 tioned in size to their habitat — to the locality they 

 inhabit. Our choice from amongst them, therefore, is some- 

 what limited, though the list is certainly copious enough for 

 ordinary purposes. We may congratulate ourselves also on 

 the fact, that it comprises some of the prettiest and most in- 

 teresting specimens of that branch of natural history. Those 

 which have been tried in the Aquarium successfully may 

 be thus enumerated, viz : the fifteen-spined stickleback, 

 the minnow or killifish, common bass, striped bass, bagall, 

 tom cod, pigmy catfish, banded garnard, flounder, poggee, 

 and the eel, to which we might add certain fish that have 

 thriven uncommonly well in the London Aquaria, viz.: the 

 tansy the young of the grey mullet, the wrasse, the black 

 goby, and the pipefish. 



The catalogue might be increased indefinitely, perhaps, 



AQUARIUM. 



CONCLUSION. 



ISH. — The fish indigenous (if we may use that term 



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