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Show Queer File Fish. That file fish captured off Land's End is a very rare visitor to our coast, remarks the London Times, the Qnly previous specimens recorded having been caught so long ago as 1827. It belongs to a numerous and Important family of the tropical seas, which are so called because the first dorsal fin is studded up the front with small projections pro-jections that suggest some resemblance to a file. Another peculiarity of these comic-looking comic-looking fish is the gun-lock spine, the principle of which was adopted for the ' earliest safety rifle lock?. |