Download or read book The Fishes of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. 2 of 2 (Classic Reprint) written by Francis Day and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-08 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Fishes of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. 2 of 2 Adams remarked (voyage of the Samarang) that such as frequent coral reefs often have their tails ornamented with rather vivid colours, and their upper sides marked with somewhat striking patterns whereas those that are half buried are as dull and dingy as the surface is where they are found. They are evidently aware how efficacious their colours prove for the purpose of concealment, and when pursued sink down to the bottom, where they lie quite still on the ground, the colour of which assimilates to that of their own upper surface. 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.