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Tank No. 5. 
coasts, from habit or in search of food; while others swim about to 
greater distances, or may, like the pelagic fish, become independent of 
coast and sea-bottom and live in the open water. 
Fig. 141. Labrus merula, tfe nat. size. Tank 5. 
Fig. 142. Crenilabrus pavo, ife nat. size. Tank 5. 
We shall first treat of those forms which frequent the coasts, beginning 
with the Labroidae, characteristic by their large protrusible lips and con¬ 
spicuous by their brilliant 
colouring. The brightly co¬ 
loured Wrasse, Labrus (Fig. 
140 and 141), and the Pea¬ 
cock-wrasse, Crenilabrus 
(Fig. 142, tank 5), belong to 
this group ; they swim about 
with a curious jerking motion. 
The gaily coloured Labrus 
Fig. 143. Julis vulgaris, t /2 nat. size. 
Tank 26. 
- Fig. 144. Julis turcica, V 2 nat. size. Tank 26. 
festivus is interesting an account of the close watch the jealous male 
animal keeps over its brood. The small Julis vulgaris and turcica (Fig. 143 
