This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1882 edition. Excerpt: ...space between the pectoral fins, the head, and the gills, is occupied on each side by an extraordinary apparatus, formed of little membranous tubes placed close to each other like a honeycomb, and subdivided horizontally into minute cells, abundantly supplied with nerves. It is in this apparatus that ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1882 edition. Excerpt: ...space between the pectoral fins, the head, and the gills, is occupied on each side by an extraordinary apparatus, formed of little membranous tubes placed close to each other like a honeycomb, and subdivided horizontally into minute cells, abundantly supplied with nerves. It is in this apparatus that the electrical or galvanic power resides which has rendered these fishes so famous, and from which their name is derived; with it they can inflict violent shocks, and they most probably use it to deprive their prey of power." The Fiddler. The Fiddler, or Trigonorhina fasciata, otherwise a harmless fish, is a great pest to the fishermen at times in the harbours, readily and quietly taking the bait intended for some other fish of a more useful character. Like all the shark tribe, they have a very powerful scent, and seize the bait by overlying it, with a mouth which is well underneath. These fishes, if not very cautious in their movements at this time, are struck by the line, and the hook very often pierces some other place than the mouth on the under part of the body. All the stingless Rays or Raiidse are useful as food, but they are never eaten in this Colony. CHAPTER VI. Our Fresh-water Food Fishes. In such a dry climate as that of Australia, where the rivers are few, and except in winter mere sluggish narrow streams, it is not to be expected that our fresh-water fishes can be either numerous or abundant. For the colonists in the immediate neighbourhood they have a certain economical importance, but the fisheries do not employ many hands, nor are they ever likely to. The river system of the western side of the Dividing Range is confined to the Murray and its tributaries, of which only the Darling, Murrumbidgee, Lachlan, and Macquarie, ...
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