The Shipley Collection of Scientific Papers, Volumen2281913 |
Términos y frases comunes
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Página 79 - I'll not meddle with them any farther than to wish them wiser; an'd shall tell you next, for, I hope, I may be so bold, that the Tench is the physician of fishes, for the Pike especially ; and that the Pike, being either sick or hurt, is cured by the touch of the Tench.
Página 195 - It was in obeying this peculiarity of their nature that a shoal of these fish, as they swept by in front of 'Elliott's' grandfather's residence, would sometimes, at floodtide, approach so near to the shore as to come in contact with the water fence, the firm posts of which they would clasp and struggle to uptear, till they lashed the water into a foam with their powerful wings."2 Any such action, however, would be entirely exceptional and the statement requires authentication.
Página 42 - The fish, once struck, is allowed to run till tired ; it is then pulled in, and beaten with clubs till stunned. A large hook is now hooked into its eyes or nostrils, or wherever it can be got most easily attached, and by this the shark is towed on shore ; several boats are requisite for towing. The mhor is often 40, sometimes 60, feet in length ; the mouth is occasionally 4 feet wide.
Página 189 - Brown (1662) declared it to be "esteemed by some as a festival fish, though it affords but a glutinous jelly, and the skin is beset with stony knobs after no certain order." Buckland thought that the males are best as food, their flesh being soft, rich, and oily — doubtful recommendations for Anglo-American tastes. In Scotland and northern England the fish appears to be held in higher esteem than elsewhere; "some inhabitants of Edinburgh deem it second only to the Turbot...
Página 145 - The natural inference that this apparatus is of a poisonous nature is justified by what is known of the fish. The slightest pressure on the base of a spine causes the poison to jet a foot or more from the spine. According to John M. Dow (1865), "the natives of Panama seemed quite familiar with the existence of the spines and of the emission from them of a poison " ; this, " when introduced into a wound, caused fever, an effect somewhat similar to that produced by the sting of a scorpion, but in no...
Página 46 - The teeth are fixed and extremely minute, the largest being little more than a line in length, and decrease towards the ends of the jaw; they are disposed in regularly transverse rows, of which there are over one hundred and sixty (164-167) on each side, while in front there are from thirteen to sixteen in each transverse row; each tooth is recurved backwards and acutely pointed, swollen and with a heel-like projection in front rising from its base.
Página 195 - Divil-Fish lies at some of our Inlets, and as near as I can describe him, is shaped like a Scate, or Stingray; only he has on his Head a Pair of very thick strong Horns, and is of a monstrous Size, and Strength; for this Fish has been known to weigh a Sloop's Anchor, and run with the Vessel a League or two, and bring her back, against Tide, to almost the same Place.
Página 188 - May the newly-hatched larvae are about 6 mm. in length or a little longer. They are tadpole-like — with the remains of yolk, the oil-globule occupying the right side, while the marginal fin is continuous, dorsally and ventrally. The caudal has only embryonic rays, and there is a thickening (hypural) beneath the notochord in this region. The short breast-fins show indications of true rays. The circulation in the vessels of the yolk-sac goes on in jerks, so different from the continuously rapid currents...
Página 195 - It is the habit of this fish to ply these arms rapidly before its mouth while it swims, and to clasp with the utmost closeness and obstinacy whatever body it has once inclosed. In this way, the boats of fishermen have often been dragged from their moorings, and overset by the devil-fish having laid hold of the grapnel.
Página 195 - The first harpoon had struck it near the center of the belly — had pierced the liver, and passed nearly through to the back. The second had passed from the back into his lungs or gills — so that the full power of so large a fish was never fairly exerted against us. Had the same fish been struck in the wings, or other parts not vital...