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FOREST AND STREAM 
Oct. ii, 1913. 
A REAL GUN 
L. C. Smith New Designs With Hunter One Trigger 
Above Illustration is TRAP Grade. 
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Nest-Building Fishes, 
There are fishes that build nests just as 
birds do. Not long ago some of them were 
brought to this country from Japan, and you 
can buy a pair of them for a small price at any 
fancier’s now. If he does not have them in 
stock he will get them. 
The purchase is sure to be profitable, because 
the habits of these creatures are so remarkably 
interesting, and. unlike gold fish, they will breed 
in an aquarium or even in a glass globe. They 
produce three or four broods of young annually, 
so that the owner is likely to be able to make 
money by disposing of the increase. In the land 
of the Mikado, to which they are native, they 
are called paradise fish. 
The nests they make are very odd. indeed, be¬ 
ing composed entirely of air bubbles. When 
the time for mating arrives the male fish under¬ 
goes a striking change in its appearance. Ordi¬ 
narily he is of a dull, silvery color, but now he 
exhibits stripes of red, blue and green, with 
streaks of brightest orange on the ventral fins. 
Such is the costume in which he goes a-wooing. 
Later on the female proceeds to construct the 
family nest at the surface of the water. Swal¬ 
lowing air, she ejects it in the shape of bubbles, 
which are held and made permanent by glutin¬ 
ous capsules from a secretion in her mouth. 
Having got together in this way a sufficient 
mass of bubbles she proceeds to lay. 
At this stage the female paradise fish seems 
always to be seized with a strange desire to 
gobble her own eggs. This she would inevitably 
do but for the watchfulness of the male, who 
prevents her, taking the eggs in his mouth and 
ejecting them beneath the mass of bubbles, to 
which they arise and find a resting place among 
them. Sometimes he will conduct his mate 
under the nest so that the eggs as they are laid 
may ascend to it. When laying is finished he 
keeps guard over the nest, attacking the female 
if she comes near. Meanwhile he busies himself 
in the making of fresh bubbles to take the place 
of those which chance to burst. 
This performance is kept up for five days, at 
the end of which the young are hatched out. 
They cannot swim, but cling like little tadpoles 
to the bubbles. If one falls to the bottom, as 
happens now and then, the papa fish takes it in 
his mouth and disgorges it among the bubbles 
again. His watchfulness is continued until the 
little fishes are able to take care of themselves. 
They grow fast in a glass globe or aquarium, 
attaining a length of three or four inches. They 
thrive best on chopped angleworms, but raw 
beef cut fine will serve as a substitute. Appar¬ 
ently they are exclusively carnivorous. Care 
must be taken not to expose them to cold, 
which quickly kills them.—San Francisco Ex¬ 
aminer. 
Water-Wagon of the Desert. 
The camel, celebrated in myth and story as 
a sort of herbivorous sponge, to be wrung out 
in the desert when all other sources of water 
fail, is not, according to the scientists, particu¬ 
larly the autopsy makers, a dependable source 
of anything fit to drink—unless one has acquired 
the taste for camel’s milk. The so-called water 
cells attached to the paunch contain within two 
or three days after the animal has drunk only 
a small amount of acid fluid, of most disagree¬ 
able odor and appearance, entirely unpalatable 
in fact. If the time since the last watering is 
still longer, there is practically nothing but gas¬ 
tric juice in the water cells, and this, according 
to several experienced writers, is “utterly and 
entirely abominable.’’ 
The obvious moral of this is that the amateur 
desert traveler should not count on tapping a 
camel when he gets in a tight place. For "that 
sweet fountain” in these animals, described by 
Montgomery, Keats and not a few other poets, 
is, to put it mildly, as little palatable as a brack¬ 
ish mud hole in the alkali country. 
Regarding the camel's reputed ability to sur¬ 
vive without water for long periods, there seems 
less dubiety. In the winter the Indian Govern¬ 
ment’s camels not infrequently go ten days with¬ 
out being watered. Furthermore, according to 
a writer familiar by personal experience with 
the habits and treatment of Indian camels, those 
belonging to the nomad Arabs oftentimes have 
to get along without any water at all from the 
middle of November until the first weeks in 
February. In the bleak wastes of the North¬ 
west, where the “gizzu” or winter grasses are 
found, many of them remain all winter, and 
there is no water to be had.—New York Evening 
Post. 
