QUEER FISH: and other inhabitants of the rivers and oceans. By E.G. Boulenger. With illustrations, many sketched from nature, by L. R. Brightwell.

(1925) 1931 new edition. Small 8vo (130 x 195mm). Pp189,ads. B/w plates and line illustrations. Blue cloth, spine and upper board titled in black, black fish vignette on upper board. .

This is a fascinating popular account of the odder-looking fish species. E.G. Boulenger approaches the subject with an authority which is not lessened by the popular approach he adopts. Many good illustrations. Chapters include; walking and climbing fish; electric fish; blind fish; armoured fish; flying-fish; lung-fish; flat-fish; goldfish; giant fish; nursing fish; nest-building fish; fish and their travels; luminous fish; baby fish; fighting fish; other queer fish; food fish; fossil fish; shell fish; aquatic mammals.