NATURAL HISTORY. 
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CHAP. XXXI. 
Of Bony Fishes in general — Apodal Fishes — The Eel — 
The Conger — The Electrical Eel — The Wolf-fish — 
The Launce — The Swor nfish — Jugular Fishes — The 
Dragonet — The Weever — The Cod — Three and five 
bearded Cods — 'The Haddock — The Whiling Pout — 
The Bib— The Poor — The Coal Fish — The. Pollack — 
The Whiling — The Hake — The Ling — The Burbot — 
The Blenny — The crested and viviparous Blenny — 
Thoracic Fishes — The Goby, or Hock Fish — The Re- 
mora, or Sucking Fish — The Bullhead — The Miller's 
Thumb — The Pogge — The Doree — The Opah — The 
Flounder — The JtlollibiU — The P/aise — The Dab — 
The Sole — The Lantern Fish — The Turbot — The Pearl 
— The Whiff— The Gilt-head — The Dorado — The 
Wrasse — The Bal/an, fyc . — The Perch — The Basse — 
The Ruffe — The Stickle-bock — The Mackerel — 
The Tunny — The Scad — The Suit mud let — The G cu- 
n' a it i ) — Abdominal Fishes — The Loach — The Salmon 
— The Sea Trout — The White Trout — The Samlet — The 
Trout — The Gillaroo, or Gizzard, Trout — The Char — 
The Grayling — The Smelt — The Gzoiniad — The Pike 
— The Sea Needle — The Saury — The Argentine — 
The Atherine — The Mullet — The Flying Fish — 
The Herring — The Pilchard — Herring Fishery — 
The Sprat — The Anchovy — The Shad — The Carp — 
The Barbel — The Tench — The Gudgeon — The Bream 
— The Rud — The Crucian — The Roach — The Dace — 
2 'he Chub — The Bleak — The While Bait — The Min- 
now — The Gold and Silver Fish — The Art of Angling 
— Bails, Sfc. for Fishes — Praise of Angling. 
bony fishes. 
The third general division of fishes is into that of the 
Spinous, or bony kind. These are obviously distinguished 
from the rest by having a complete bony covering to their 
gills ; by their being furnished with no other method of 
breathing but gills only ; by their bones, which are sharp 
and thorny ; and their tails, which are placed in a situa- 
tion perpendicular to the body. 
The history of any one of this order very much resembles 
that of all the rest. They breathe air and water through 
