Several little fishes, besides the one to which in especial the name of archer has been given, practise this curious and, except for themselves, unique art. But they are all nearly related—all belong to the Acanthopterigious family of Squamipennes or Chætodontidæ—for those are the sort of names that they call them in scientific works. One of these other kinds is a favourite with the Chinese in Java, who keep it in jars, and feed it with flies or other insects, which they place on their edges for the little archers to knock off. Possibly there may be some other animals, besides these fishes, which obtain their prey by shooting water at it, but I do not, myself, know of any before we come to man. The Australian savages chase bees to their hives, by encumbering their wings with cotton or something similar, and they first catch the bees by filling their mouths with water, and squirting it out over them. Thus we find in man the nearest approach to the archer-fish, and it is to him, too, that we must look for a parallel, artificially brought about, to the natural art of another of the great fish family, viz. the angler or sea-devil. This wonderfully provided creature has an enormous head, on the top of which grow three long filaments, two forward, and close together, and the third a good deal farther back. The front filament of all, bends forward and seems to dangle from its end, in front of the angler’s huge mouth, a little silvery tuft, or piece, of something, so that the whole has a wonderful resemblance to a fishing-rod and line, with a baited hook at the end of it. The owner of this curious arrangement lies along the bottom of the sea, near the shore, almost hidden in the sand, and when a small fish, attracted by the shining appendage, comes to nibble at it, makes a rush and engulfs, rather than seizes, it in its cavernous jaws. The object, which thus plays the part of a bait, is really an expansion of the filament itself. The creature is thus provided with a natural fishing-rod, which, however, is designed only to attract the prey about the bait, and not to hook and haul it up. In this way the game is lured within the angler’s reach, and the actual catching of it is done by the mouth, in the ordinary way.