Animate creation : popular edition of "Our living world" : a natural history (1898)
Wood, J. G. (John George), 1827-1889, Holder, Joseph B. (Joseph Bassett), 1824-1888, Prang, Louis, 1824-1909, lithographer, Brehm, Alfred Edmund, 1829-1884, Wood, J. G. (John George), 1827-1889. Illustrated natural history, National Zoological Park (U.S.), former owner. DSI · New York : Selmar Hess · leaf 357
ORE proceeding to our next example of the finny tribes, we must briefly notice a curious fish which seems to be a kind of balance to the sword-fish already mentioned, the ‘sword’? in this instance belonging to the lower instead of the upper jaw, and being formed by a prolongation of its bones. It… … THE odd-looking Gar-FIsH is known by a vast variety of names, such as SEA PIKE, MACKEREL GUIDE, SEA-NEEDLE, LONG-NOSE, GORE-BILL, HORNFISH, and GREENBONE, the last-mentioned title being given to it because, when it is boiled, its bones are of a bright green hue. The name of Mackerel Guide is owing…
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