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drawing of the smaller specimen of the two examples recorded 

 by him. 



The number of fin-rays in several specimens as stated by 

 different authors agree so closely, that they may be considered 

 as amounting to 



D. 38 : P. 20 : V. 1 + 5 : A. 22 : C. 17. 



M. Laurillard, not long since, obtained a specimen, at 

 Nice, twenty-seven inches long. The Blackfish has now 

 been taken of various sizes, from thirteen to thirty-two 

 inches. 



A figure of this fish occurs in the Traite General des 

 Peches of Duhamel, deuxieme partie, sec. iv. pi. vi. fig. 2, 

 under the name of Serran de Provence, and another figure is 

 also given in a recent Paris edition of the works of the Comte 

 de Lacepede, in eleven volumes, octavo, edited by M. Des- 

 marest, plate xcv. fig. 3. 



