Prose Halieutics; Or, Ancient And Modern Fish Tattle

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' We must, however, leave the soused, to say a few words about the dactylopterus volitans, or flying gurnard.
The ancients were well acquainted with this and some other aeronautic species ; Oppian mentions no less than three ; characterized, inter alia, by greater or less aero- tomic powers of fin. ' The swallow's flight,' he tells us, ' is low and short, the irexes scarcely rise above the water {a^yeBov aepedovTcu) , but advance, alternately beat- ing and skimming the surface of the waves ; th
...e theutis alone takes a long flight.' Authors difier considerably as to the maximum height attained by these volatile fish : in many instances, as intimated by the Greek poet above cited, 'Tia only a bounce, as thougli they were trying By bounding and skipping to teach themselves flying ; others of them take long flying leaps, and then subside slowly on the parachute of their pectoral fins. The dac- tylopterus volitans (and not volans, for even his progress is but a series of short, fitful flights, not one sustained THE GURNARD aROUP.

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