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it adopts a different mode of attack ; it lays itself in ambush, half 
covered with marine plants, or behind hillocks of sand and stones at 
the bottom of the water ; and in this situation throws out the long 
tentacula of its head, to attract the attention of the smaller fishes : 
those singular and useful processes from their vermicular motion, as 
they wave in the water, are easily mistaken for worms, which the 
little fishes approaching with confidence.attempt to seize, and being 
thus enticed close to the mouth of the Fishing Frog, who laid before 
unperceived below, fall an easy prey to their wary enemy. The 
English fishermen believe this fish to be very destructive to the broods 
of young sharks, and under this idea, whenever they draw them up 
in their nets, throw them back again into the sea. The flesh of 
this fish is white, and having, it is said, the same flavour as the com- 
mon frog, is eaten in many countries as a delicacy.' 
I lie small dorsal fin on the anterior part of the back contains three 
long setacious rays, and one behind very small ; the posterior dorsal 
fin contains fourteen rays : pectoral fin twenty-seven rays : ventral 
five: anal eight; and tail eight. 
