The field book : or, Sports and pastimes of the United kingdom ; compiled from the best authorities, ancient and modern (1833)
Maxwell, W. H. (William Hamilton), 1792-1850 · London : E. Wilson · leaf 392
ose rocky shelv-ing precipices they station themselves, and per-form the offices of incubation, while stragglers occasionally taking a wider range, with out-stretched neck and vigorous wing sweep alongthe coast, and entering the mouths of the ri-vers, follow their course in quest of food, tothe… … Perch have one particularity, which is con-trary to the nature of all fish of prey in freshwater (and they are so voracious as to attacktheir own kind), that they are gregarious,swimming in shoals. The body of the perchis deep, the scales very rough, the back mucharched, and the side-line…
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