Bellows-fish Fell from Air.
Nature Notes.
By
James Drummond.
F.L.S.. F.Z.S
g;EYER t \L SPECIES of bellows-fish artfound in. New Zealand waters, but not often. The specimen photographed for the “Star” has an interesting history. While Mr Carter was working in his garden. IS Sarah Street, Timaru, he was surprised to discover that it had been dropped from the air. As it was alive, was placed in a tu r > of water, where it lived for a day. coming trp to the surface at intervals of a few minutes.
Mr Carter’s place is about fifty chains from the sea, as the crow flies. The fish, apparently, was caught by a sea-bird, which dropped it above the garden. It was only about four inches long and two and a half inches deep, its body being greatly compressed. It had an opalescent hue, and in this respect it was less conspicuous than other bellows fishes caught in New Zealand waters. Some of them are orange-yellow and silvery, and have white bands. Others have well marked dark bands that run across -he body obliquely
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Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 192, 14 August 1931, Page 8
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181Bellows-fish Fell from Air. Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 192, 14 August 1931, Page 8
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