Excerpt from Half-Hours in the Green Lanes: A Book for a Country Stroll Inhabitants of the tam - The Pike and its parasite - Habits of the former - Scales of fishes magnified - Pike, Perch, and Tench - Agassiz's orders 'of fishes - Scales of Roach and Dace - The Rudd, or Rowd. Its habits - Scales of Bream, Gudgeon, and Minnow - When the Carp and Pike were in troduced - Antiquity of the latter fish - The Common and Crucian Carp - Barbe], Chub, and Grayling - Their habits Physical geological changes since Sticklebacks were intro duced - Scale of Eel - Habits Of Sticklebacks - Their nest building habits - Evidence afforded by our fresh-water ani.1v contents. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.