The glowing, metallic-coloured fish can grow up to 17m-long and has only ever been seen dying on the sea surface or dead washed ashore, the BBC reports.    From Wordnik.com.  [National Nine News] Reference

Amid this rich and varied vegetation, swarms of tiny and brilliant humming-birds flutter round the masses of highly-scented blossoms that perfume the air, and which might be mistaken by the stranger at first sight for some of the metallic-coloured beetles which dispute with them the nectar of the fragrant flowers, so brilliant is the lustre shed by both.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America] Reference