LITTLE SERGEANT MAJORS.
Lively Fishes at the New York City Agiarinm That Flock Together , Like Chicks. , Among the tropical fishes lately received at the aqtiarhmi from Bermuda were CO or more little sergeant majors. two or three inches in length, which will flock together precisely like little chicks, and with the same confident fearlessness, says the New York Sun.
Let tbem be scattered through the water in all parts of their tank and let somebody tap gently low down on the outside of the glass and the -whole bunch will come n-scurrying. as fast as their fins can drive tbem. all crowding in together as near those finger tips as they can get.
What draws them so, whether curiosity or hunger, or what, they nil swarm at the call. And as lit lie chicks will run, a moment later nil together to another part of the field at the old hen's bidding, so will these little sergeant majors rush together again a moment later, at a second gentle tapuing on the glass,
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Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 931, 10 June 1914, Page 6
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