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WITH reference to Mr. Archer's note in NATURE last week (p. 226), may I remark that the beak of the garfish of southern waters (Hemiramphus, A.) is of rather too fragile a nature to be capable of making a slit of four inches in length in a hard felt hat? May not the fish in question have been more likely a young and small Xiphias—or, as is equally probable, a juvenile Pristis or sawfish—emulating with the thoughtless exuberance of youth the habits of Exocetus?
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GOODSIR, R. Garfish—Wild Fowl. Nature 28, 245 (1883). https://doi.org/10.1038/028245b0
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