New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-07-09
LATEST THINGS IN FISHES.
THE AQUARIUM GETS A CONSIGNMENT
OF RARE BERMUDANs.
TERRORS OF THE GREEN MORAY AND TIL"
TROUBLE IN GETTING HiM-ANGELs
AND GREEN PARROTS
AND GREEN PARROTS

sailing into the finest harbOr In the world. FOR
all this the collection Of queer fish that arrived
from Bermuda on the Quebec Lines steamship
Ornoco carly that morning ought 70 De con
graduated: they may not all have Hnih!Brd''1
of their own free will. but they certainly ar
rived under the happiest and most PROMISING
auspices
An axnress wagon apparently laden with
huge wash boilers. numbered up 10 the side doD'
Of the building. where in GREATNESS cXpecta-
ton the superintendent and half OF the per
sonnet stood ready 10 receive it. Mr. Spencer.
/ assistant Superintendent, enthusiastic Dipio-
gst of the institution was ready with MS idhi-
ing net; about him stood assistants Win JUN
cts And then the work OF transferring INC
fearful and wonderful consignment Vi D7'
nudan saltwater eccentricties began IL was
not easy work by any means. ana IL was WIN
that demanded the utmost care ana me C'''''N
attention for a bruise on the deIlcdte Siue "a
one of those beauties, or, sun more Ian 'i
the dusty cement pavement, Would Hea" 's
fmperfecticn if not the complete loss. Oh d
! specfrnen that might never be replaced a
deeply interested crowd Of passers-by began 70
Gather but the small boys and the young
women in summer holiday clothes were not
nearly as Interested as the Aquarium people
themselves who asked each other in trepida-
tion rs that the angel?" and got answer, NO.
the angel is in the other tank. That's squr-
rel Here are the kinds" and more Of the same
mystfying character.
That wagon discharged. a second iolo"eL
with still bigger tanks and stu more lh'-
portant passenger If not more beautiful ins
was the green moray. a thing Al WHICH ''
nervous person should be allowed 70 look-a
long. thick bodied. 1.-the creature, more brown
than green with long. fierce Jaws that open ana
shut continually The moray Of bermuda per
suades the beholder that there really are deVis
and a material hell. This individual Is the hrst
| of mis- immediate family 70 arrive IN THIS couh-
try Getting him from his travelling tank mo
bis nermanent abode was Job compared 70
which all the rest was mere play. he arrahSed
himself in several bights at the bottom OF his
new home and terrified the reporters through
the plate glass; then laying his head on one
side, he stopped breathing and frightened the
AQUARIUM attendants by pretending TO be dead,
| which he was not as he subsequently proved
10 the general satisfaction. The moray lives
two plate glasses away from the sand shark,
which impresses one as a marine emblem Ok
gentleness and geniality by comparison.
But if any visitor to the Aquarium. having
rashly looked into the jaws Of the moray.
wished to blot out his memory with an impress
sion Of sheer beauty it was only necessary TO
move a few steps away TO the right where the
rival beauty Of the new lot moved and smiled
among a shoal Of spotted fellow-Bermudans ~
MS This green parrot may be called a beauty
| in a sense neither scientific nor ironical but just
as one would apply the term to extraordin-
arily fine flower precious stone. His beauty
Is not in his form, which is not remarkable
among other fat bodied fishes but in his color.
which is vivid turquoise. with a network OF
| gold all over the body, and two lines on either
side OF his mouth that give the effect OF per-
petual smirk. The tail opens and shuts and
waves about in the water like gorgeous fan
handled by a skilfu Seyillian belle; it is striped
in exquisite gradations of richly contrasting
colors and, in the light altering through from
the back Of the tank. gives the soft effect Of
tropical birds plumage. This green parrot. 4
larger and altogether finer specimen than that
which II replaces. is likely to become the most
admired fish in the Aquarium. not excepting
even the wonderful moonfish. or the angels
themselves Indeed it is hard to find anything
| in either sea or land life with which to COM
pare his marvellous coloring which recalls more
than anything else the gorgeous beauty of some
exceptional pieces Of Chinese coisson6
Professor Bristol arrived at the Aquarium be-
fore the work of bestowing all the new arrivals
was quite finished. He in hurry 70 catch
a train, and. therefore. could not talk much
at length as might have been wished. But he
could not leave the city, even on Independence
Day, without look at all his old friends
human and piscine at the Aquarium. and a fare
well glance at the new acquisitions he had
brought home. He seemed to take peculiar
pride in the ugliness, physical and moral, as
well the rarity. OF that monstrous moray.
What we have in view is the establishment.
of a biological station on Whites Island.