by J. Green. 
CURIOUS FISHES. 
All these fishes are not only wonderfully coloured, but have peculiar habits. In many cases the colouration, combined with its habits, enables 
the fish to procure a living. The top fish is the Sapphirine Gurnard of British Seas, with curious fore fins with which it crawls along the 
bottom of the sea. The central fish is Richardson’s Plectropona; this, and the brilliant blue fish, are carnivorous. The small Blenny, lower 
to the left, has a peculiar habit of jumping ; and the last of all is the Solverenus, which is supplied with velvet pile instead of scales. 
