Fish hatching / by Frank T. Buckland.

Date:
1863
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Fish hatching / by Frank T. Buckland. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    some vegetable structure, and several small fragments of gravel and transparent quartz. If 6 RiflemanJ should see another water-ouzel on the spawning-beds, I should much like him to get it and send it to me, that I may repeat the examination. Water insects are attracted in large numbers to fish ova, and the bird I have examined evidently knew this fact.— F. T. BUCKLAKD.] The notice in your paper of last Satur- day, that one of these birds had been sent to Mr. Buckland for examination, caused me to look over my notes on this subject, made in the spawning season 1856-7. Up to that period I, in common with other preservers of salmon and trout, took it for granted that, because this bird is so constant a visitor on the salmon, while that fish is spawning, it is