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laft his hole without hesitatiorii, However, he mil not bite my finger, and 
allows me to peck him on the head and will retreat only an inch or two 
into his burrow* 
We have a flying gurnardJ Jimmy spied it ^hile swimming near the jaw- 
fish house, and Tom caught it in the hand net* It was walking along the 
bottom on its ventral s, ha said, hoisted a couple of inches off the bottom* 
It is a little fellow, six or seven inches long, but with beautiful dark 
blue wings, and on its body tiny light blue dots* Tfnen its wings are 
folded it keeps reminding me of a tiger moth* 
We brought it carefully up to the dock, dumping out my plastic film 
box to give it a place to smm i^iile it ivas in the boat, and put it in a 
small hardware cloth box, settled it on the bottom near the dock and put 
a stone on the top so that there would be no mischance of the tide turning 
the box over and letting the little tyke go* In twelve years this is the 
first gurnard we have managed safely to put in an enclosure of any sort* 
The last one, three years ago, was placed in a pen the back door of which 
happened to be open without anyone *s knowing* That was a sad day* This 
little pen has no back door, and the door on top is latched and has a 
stone on it besides* It will be fascinating to have a chance to study this 
little character* 
On the way back from the dock we met two of the little boys t^o live 
in the house down the beach, and whom we suspect of having had a hand in 
dumping the remora out of our floating net* I told them that I had a 
