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NATURAL HISTORY. 
[n. zool. gal. 
Case 8. Pilot fish, horse mackarel, John dories, ponfrets. 
Case 9. Dolphins, which change colour so rapidly when they are 
caught; the sea garters and lophotes, which are very thin and com¬ 
pressed ; the surgeons, which have a lancet-like spine on the side of 
their tail. 
Case 10. The sea mullets, wolf fish. 
Case 11. The Lophias or fishing frog or angler, with their very 
large head and mouth; hand fish, so called because its pectoral fins are 
elongate, as if placed on an arm; the rock fish or Labri. 
Cases 12, 13. Various kinds of rock fish ( Labri ). At the 
bottom of 13, the tobacco-pipe fish and trumpeter fish. 
Wall Cases 14—19. Soft-rayed Fish. 
Case 14. Carp, and other fresh water fish of different countries. 
Case 15. The pikes: the bony pikes, from America; the garpike, 
which has green bones; and different kinds of flying fish. 
Case 16. Siluroid fish : the callichthes, which are covered with rows 
of imbricate plates like scale armour; and the loricaria, which has the 
body entirely covered with a hard coat formed of angular scales; the 
salmon, trouts, &c. 
Case 17. Different kinds of herrings, shad. 
Case 18. Cod, ling, whiting. Flat fish : turbot, flounders; their 
bodies are compressed, and they lie on the white side at the bottom 
of the sea. 
Case 19. Remainder of the flat fish; as the different species of 
soles, finless soles, &c.; the lump fish, and different kinds of eels. 
Case 20. The remainder of the eels; sea horses, so called because 
they bear a grotesque resemblance to a horse in miniature when dry 
and contracted. 
Wall Cases 20—26. Anomalous Fish. 
Case 20. Spiny globe fish, which have a beak like a parrot; they 
have the faculty of dilating their stomach with air, hence their name. 
Case 21. The balistes or file fish, which have small teeth, and are 
covered with a hard skin; leather jackets, with a more flexible less 
armed skin. 
Case 22. The coffin fishes, covered with a hard homy skin formed 
of six or eight-sided plates, forming an even coat; the sturgeons, from 
Europe and America. 
Cases 23, 24. The sharks; the saw-fishes, with their elongated 
head furnished with teeth on each side. 
Cases 25, 26. The rays, the torpedoes, and the sting rays. 
On the Tops of the Cases, 
Different kinds of fish which are too large to be arranged in the 
proper places in the Cases. 
Large shad with a long dorsal ray, from Mexico ; a maigre from 
Guernsey; a sword-fish, from Margate; a flying sword-fish, from the 
Indian Ocean, with two other pikes; and belonging to the same kind 
of fish, one which has been forced through the oak timber of a ship. 
These fish swim so rapidly, that if they come against a ship they pierce 
it. A conger, an angel fish, a short-nosed bony pike from North Ame¬ 
rica; sharks; the nose of various large saw-fishes; a piraruca, frem 
British Guiana; a sturgeon, and a large sting ray. 
