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ly increasing : the remaining rays gradually diminishing, the 

 last very short." Of the anal fin, Dr. Parnell says, " the 

 first, second, and third rays gradually increasing in length, 

 the following eighteen about equal height ; the twenty- 

 seventh considerably the longest, the rest gradually diminish- 

 ing, the last very short." Lastly, I may add, that the repre- 

 sentation of the Northern Hake in the work now in progress 

 of the Fishes of Scandinavia by MM. Fries and Ekstrom ex- 

 actly accords with the new figure here engraved. 



I have no reason to suspect that I made any mistake either 

 in the counting or the printing the number of the various fin- 

 rays in the specimen I examined ; but there are considerable 

 differences when compared with the enumeration by Pennant 

 and Dr. Parnell : thus the numbers are according to Pen- 

 nant 



D. 9. 40. : P. 12 : V. 7 : A. 39. 



According to Dr. Parnell 



D. 10. 39. : P. 14 : V. 7 : A. 37 : C. 20. 



The Hake, according to Dr. Mitchell and Dr. Storcr, 

 appears to be taken both at New York and at Boston. 

 The fin-rays as given by Dr. Mitchell : 



D. 12. 38. : P. 13 : V. 7 : A. 41 : C. 27. 



Dr. Storer : 



D. 12. 38. : P. 13 : V. 7 : A. 39. 



