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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    well know, attracted by it. It is, moreover an illogical conclusion, that, because a bird is seen on the spawning-beds, it therefore eats the spawn. We want a third premise in the syllogism. The poor water-ouzel may, therefore, after all, be the friend, not the enemy, of the proprietors of fisheries.—F. B.] Having seen a water-ouzel visiting my hatching ponds, I shot it, and subsequently I killed three more near a natural spawning-bed. After dissecting these birds I found one ovum just devoured, but as it was not of the healthy pink colour, but was white. I suppose that the ouzel had picked it out, not for the sake of the roe, but for some insect which at the time was feeding upon the egg. The gizzards contained nothing besides remnants of insects. The bill of the ouzel not being formed for