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Show Peculiar Fish. Some remarkable fish were on view recently ut the--annual exhibition of the Aquarium society of New York. Among the collection was one called the African butterfly fish, which lias wing shaped fins that enabled it to skim like a hydroplane over the sur face of the water for twenty feet or so. Then there is the climbing perch, a fish that walks on land. Willi its scalloped, saw edged gills it climbs on terra firma from one pond to another an-other during the dry season. Others are the guppi of Venezuela and a fish that builds nests of air bubbles that float on top of the water. |