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VI. Description of the Eso.v Saurus. By the Rev. Thomas Rackety 
M.A.F.R.S. 4- L.S. 
Read April 6, 1802. 
ESOX SAURUS. 
xisox rostro subulato, maxillis medio hiantibus. 
Tab.V. 
Rondelet. de piscibns, lib. 8. p. 232. 
Gesner, lib. 4. p. 468. 
Rati Syn. Pise. p. 169. 
Renn. Tour Scotland, Svo. 
— Brit. Zool. 3. p. 325. 
Dorsum viridi-caerulescens. Venter argenteus. Mandibula supe- 
rior paululum recurvata. Pinna dorsalis et analis opposita, 
pinnulis utrinque sex versus caudam. Cauda bifida. 
The Esox Saurus, Saury Pike, or Skipper, was taken near the 
Isle of Portland in Dorsetshire, after a hard storm, in the summer 
of the year 1800. Of the fishermen, one only was acquainted 
with it, and called it a Skipper. This species, although known 
to Rondeletius and Gesner, who have figured it, has not been no- 
ticed by Linnaeus, by Gmelin in the 13th edition of the Systema 
hat une, nor by Bloch in his valuable work on Fishes. Ray men- 
tions its having been caught on the Cornish coast. Pennant has 
given a very indifferent figure of it in his Tour in Scotland, 8vo. 
and has made use of the same plate in his British Zoology. 
The annexed figure represents the fish of the natural size. 
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