Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-04-22
Fish With Rainbow Colors
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lining the lips are many little and ir-
regular red dots. az though some comic
painter tried to make this an espe-
cially fancy fish.
Another specimen of the surgeon
fish. taken in Puako bay. Hawaii. is
labeled with the name by which the
native Hawaians call IT, "kala." 1t is
green and blue and II has deep blue
border along the back and bright
yellow fringe along its keel. The lips
of its strange pouting mouth are yellow
Its tail terminates in two very long
and extremely slender fms that look
like fine feathers and suggest the tail
of the Tyre bird or the bird of paradise.
One of the exhibits is of the "hinalea-
another Hawaiian fish. The main color
of this Ash is dark red, but over its
whole body are curious wavy lines OF
blue and it's body is sprinkled with
blue dots about the size of bird shot.
In addition to all this fancywork II
has yellow tail. Close by il is an
other Hawaiian ish--no doubt kindred
to it-which is labeled ''hinalea iawili."
The ground color of this FISH Is green.
and on its back is saddle OF deep
orange and many small patches of red
are spread over its sides There is
also a surgeon fish, the body OF which
is a deep blue. with light red ana iight
blue trimmings top and bottom. ana
big patch of scarlet near the tail. and
across the tail is a vertical band OF
orange red.
An angel fish floats in of the
glass containers. its body is blehd
of dark blue and light blue with red
trimmings yellow fins and yellow tan
II seems to have pair OF widespread
wings There is butterfly fish from
Hawaii, which is light blue and vivid
yellow with numerous vertical lines
Of black dots on its body, and there
is a Portuguese butterfly fish from Ola
h,4s hn IN
a butterfly and marked with blue, yell
low black and mauSe, its markings
suggesting a butterfly. The yellowtail
of the Bahamas is there, blue and
bright purple, with a yellow tan and
a horizontal strip of yellow along its
purple body It's neighbors are red
squirrel fish from the Bahamas. little
brilliant blue taupau from samoa ana
a fish called the black pilot, thougn
its colors are bright blue and canary
yellow The "piliko'a" of Hawai-. near
by. is slender and graceful fish with
a red body. green FMS ana green tar
and green design on IT'S nose ana
mouth and over the eyes It's cont
panion is dog snapper from the
Canal Zone, whose colors are red, blue
and purple.
ludicrous II its makeup OF green, hine
and red that nearly all children VINO
stand and look at il for second ours,
out Laughing. Near IL is the red and
west Indies and north to Key West
Then there are FISH that have very
lit,le resemblance to the fish which
nrd;nary men are used TO looking at
one Of these is a lump fish" from tho
coast Of Maine 1t is bright green.
about the size of frog and is very
suggestive of a frog. The Greenland
scuipin and the eighteen-s pined sculpin
are dreadful Hooking creatures. and in
compariscn with them the real devil
ash is a handsome creation. There are
living robins or batfish. whose inns are
wings; red goatfsh from the Bahamas
with a red head, canary body. dots and
lines of sky blue and two long, stringy
chin whiskers or chin fms.
Perhaps there are no more homely
creatures in the collection than two sea
ravens. found along the Atlantic coast
northward from New York. One Is
cardinal or maroon in color and the
other Is orange. They seem to be COW
cred with warts, and every hsh feature
is misshapen and distorted. Though
each specimen is about foot long, they
5E !. up the. suggestion that they must
2 ,ine form Of a sea toad.