The Aquarium: Its Inhabitants, Structure & ManagementHardwicke, 1876 - 316 páginas |
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... colour Habits of wrasses Red wrasse - Food of wrasses - Young of wrasse - Cuckoo wrasse Corkwing and rainbow wrasses between male and female of ditto - ― - The dragonet - Difference ― Angler fish - Modi- fication of dorsal fin - rays of ...
... colour Habits of wrasses Red wrasse - Food of wrasses - Young of wrasse - Cuckoo wrasse Corkwing and rainbow wrasses between male and female of ditto - ― - The dragonet - Difference ― Angler fish - Modi- fication of dorsal fin - rays of ...
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Its Inhabitants, Structure & Management John Ellor Taylor. -- of colour to sea - bed - Structural modifications of flat - fishes The plaice , sole , and turbot Difference in coloured sides of ditto - Modification of eyes of ditto - The ...
Its Inhabitants, Structure & Management John Ellor Taylor. -- of colour to sea - bed - Structural modifications of flat - fishes The plaice , sole , and turbot Difference in coloured sides of ditto - Modification of eyes of ditto - The ...
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... colour of this worm is due to the false- blood being visible through the thin skin . We have seen that the gradual change of the water to a greenish hue is due to the presence of minute vegetation which the undue light has stimulated ...
... colour of this worm is due to the false- blood being visible through the thin skin . We have seen that the gradual change of the water to a greenish hue is due to the presence of minute vegetation which the undue light has stimulated ...
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... colour on the under part of the body which gives it a very attractive appearance . Its move- ments in the water are even more graceful than those of fishes . These animals have long been regarded with dislike and suspicion , and not ...
... colour on the under part of the body which gives it a very attractive appearance . Its move- ments in the water are even more graceful than those of fishes . These animals have long been regarded with dislike and suspicion , and not ...
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... colours and the spots of the males , are developed . In May and June these will be at their height , for the females are then depositing their ova , singly , in the folds of the leaves of the water plants . The eggs are soon hatched ...
... colours and the spots of the males , are developed . In May and June these will be at their height , for the females are then depositing their ova , singly , in the folds of the leaves of the water plants . The eggs are soon hatched ...
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Página 12 - ... a very small portion of a tree or shrub generates a considerable quantity of oxygen, there were no reasons to doubt that the influence of the vegetable might serve as a complete compensation for that of the animal kingdom.* The history of the various successful attempts that have been made to construct Marine Aquaria is very interesting.
Página 9 - Fire and hail, snow and vapour, and stormy wind, fulfil his word," and are the necessary agents in completing the scheme of paternal kindness.
Página 172 - In the latter instance these movements are very quiet and uniform, the fish swimming"round their tank in one shoal and one continuous stream. At night, on the contrary, the shoal is entirely broken up, each fish taking an independent path and darting from one side of the tank to the other with an amount of agility scarcely to be anticipated by a mere daylight acquaintance with the species. It was during these active nocturnal movements that the fish struck against the rockwork of their tank and came...
Página 171 - ... to readily take their prepared food from the keeper's hand — a circumstance which would seem to indicate that young fish, like the young of other animals, are more readily susceptible of domestication, adult herrings not being known to display an equal amount of confidence towards those who tend them. The food question being settled, another difficulty presented itself, and this time one that threatened, sooner or later, to accomplish the extermination of the whole shoal. Immediately succeeding...
Página vi - Scotica is now presented to the Public, in the hope that it may be received with as much favour as its predecessor.