SAND LAUNCE. 



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larger fishes, and particularly by the MackareJ. 

 The Launce spawns in the month of May, deposit- 

 ing its eggs in the mud, near the edges of the coast. 

 It is remarkable that most of the older ichthyo- 

 logists describe this fish as without scales, their 

 small size apparently causing them to be over- 

 looked. The swimming bladder is wanting, so 

 that the animal is calculated only for a littoral 

 residence. 



