Nature readers : $b Sea-side and way-side. No. 3Wright, Julia McNair
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Nature readers : $b Sea-side and way-side. No. 3
Wright, Julia McNair
Nature study -- Juvenile literature; Readers
34. What other odd forms of fish do you remember?
35. Tell me about some queer forms of fish heads and noses.
36. What are some of the weapons of fish?
37. For what do they use these weapons?
38. What can you tell me about the breast fins of fish?
39. To what do the breast fins sometimes change?
40. How are fishes able to climb trees?
41. What do you know about flying fish?
42. What are barbels?
43. What fishes have barbels?
44. Where do the fin family live?
45. How are sea fishes divided?
46. Do fishes ever go from salt to fresh water?
47. For what reason do some fish leave the sea and ascend rivers?
48. Tell me how air is put into tanks of water for fish.
49. How do fish behave if they have not enough air?
50. How does air get into the water of seas, lakes, and rivers?
51. How do fish sometimes help themselves to surface air?
52. What do fishes eat?
53. What is the basking of fish?
54. How are fishes kept in glass tanks?
55. Tell me of some of the queer ways of fish.
56. What about the fighting of fish?
57. How does a fish act when he darts after his food?
58. What are fish eggs called before they are laid?
59. What are they called when first dropped in the water?
60. What are the little fish called soon after they hatch?
61. What do we mean by a school, or shoal, of fish?
62. What can you tell me about skate and dog-fish eggs?
63. How will you know the egg-sacs of a skate from those of a dog-fish?
64. How do the mackerel and herring leave their eggs?
65. What can you say of the numbers of the eggs of fish?
66. What kind of a nest does the trout make for her eggs?
67. Where and when can you find perch eggs?
68. What can you tell me of the shape and colors of scales?
69. What can you tell me of the scales of the side line of the fish?
70. Of what use is this slipperiness to a fish?
71. Why is it hard for a bird or fish to get a partly swallowed fish
from its throat?
72. Tell me about some pretty fish.
73. Have all fishes teeth?
74. What can you say of the number of teeth in many fishes?
75. Where are these teeth set?
76. What do the French call “teeth in velvet”?
77. What can you tell me about the shape of fish teeth?
78. What kind of a fish is a stickleback?
79. How have some of his fins changed?
80. Tell me about the way sticklebacks can be caught.
81. Tell me something of their habits.
82. How does the stickleback build his home?
83. What do the eggs look like?
84. How does this little father take care of his family?
85. What is one of our largest river fish?
86. How are sturgeon often caught?
87. What do the Russians make from sturgeon?
88. What kind of candles do the Cossacks often have?
89. What are some of the things made from the shark?
90. What can you tell me about the shark?
91. Of what use are fish?
92. How can you learn more about fish?
93. Why in these Readers have you been told a little of many things?
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