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FISHES. 
morning) will serve as an illustration of the vora- 
ciousness of their habits. Here is the skeleton of 
a Frog-fish^ two and a half feet in length, in the 
stomach of which is the skeleton of a Cod-fish 
two feet long, in whose stomach again are con- 
tained the skeletons of two Whitings of the 
ordinary size ; in the stomach of each Whiting 
there lay numerous half-digested little fishes, 
which were too small and broken up to admit of 
preservation. The Frog-fish, with all these con- 
FROG-FISH. 
tents, was taken last summer by the fishermen, 
and offered for sale in the market, as an article 
of food, without any reference at all to the size 
of its stomach, which, to them, is an every-day 
appearance.” 
The ferocity with which the Trout tyrannizes 
over his fellows of the finny race is illustrated by 
the following graphic delineation, communicated 
to the New Sporting Magazine which is in- 
teresting also for its notice of the habits of an- 
other species, far inferior in bulk, but fully equal 
to the Trout in pugnacity. The scene is a little 
limpid rill that flows down the side of Cheviot, 
