Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 July 1858 — Fishes Traveling by Land. [ARTICLE]

Fishes Traveling by Land.

Dr. Hancock, in the Zoological Journal, gives a description of a fish called the fiathead hussar, that travels to pools-- of water when that in which it has resided dries up. Bose a Iso describes another'variety which is found :n South Carolina, nnd, if our memory serves us well, also in Texas, which, : like the flat-head, leaves tiie drying pools in 1 search of others. These, fishes, filled with water, travel by night—lone with a lizard*! like motion, and the other by leaps. The South Carolina and Texas varieties are furnished with a membrane over the mouth by' which they are enabled to carrv with them a supply of water to keep their gills moist during their travel. These fishes, guided by j some peculiar sense, always travel in a straight line to the nearest water. This they do without the aid of memory; so- it has been found that if a tub filled with water is sunk in the ground near one of these pools which they inhabit.!, they will, when tiie pool dlries up, move directly towapd the j tub. Surely this is a wonderful nnd merciful provision for the preservation of these! kinds of fishes; lor, inhabiting, as they do, only stagnant pools, and that, too, in countries subject to long and periodical drouths, ; their races would, but for this provision, become extimet.— Louisville Journal.