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XVI. Some Account of the Trichiurus Lepturus of Linuru .fáund 
on the Shore of the Moray-Frith. By Mr. James Hoy, F.L.S. 
Read February 16, 1813. 
Ox the 2d of November 1810, after a high wind from the north, 
a specimen of the Trichiurus Lepturus of Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 429, 
was cast upon the shore of the Moray-Frith, near the fishing vil- 
lage of Port Gordon, about three miles east from the mouth of 
the River Spey ; and it was brought to me the next day as a kind 
of fish which had never been seen before by any of the fishermen 
in this part of the country. "They said that, in seeking for lob- 
sters cast ashore by the storm, they found it lying dead upon 
the sandy beach. Its head was much broken, probably by being 
dashed upon the rocks about low-water mark: the bones of the 
upper part of the head still remained, and the sockets of the 
eyes were distinguishable, very near to each other: the extremity 
of the upper jaw, or upper part of the mouth, was entire ; upon 
either side of which was an operculum. The length of the head 
could not be measured exactly, but was about eight or nine 
inches: the body, from the gills to the point of the tail, was 
three feet two inches long; its greatest breadth six inches and a 
quarter; and its greatest thickness only an inch: the vent was 
two inches from the gills ; these were much broken, and partly 
gone, so that the number of the rays could not be ascertained. 
Both sides of the fish were wholly white, without a spot upon 
them ; 
