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SCI^ENID.'E. 



ACANTHOPTERYGll. 



THE MAIGRE. 



Scicena aquila, Cuv. et VALENC. Hist. Nat. des Poiss. t. v. p. 28, pi. 100. 



Umbra Rondeletii, WILLUGHBY, p. 299, tab. S. 19. 



Clieilodiptere aigle, LACEPEDE. 



Scitena aquila, FLEM. Brit. An. p. 213, sp. 144. 



,, ,, Maigre, JENYNS, Brit. Vert. p. 352. 



Generic Characters. Body covered with scales : two dorsal fins ; spines of 

 the anal fin slender: a single row of strong teeth in each jaw ; a narrow line of 

 small ones in the upper jaw only, none on the vomer or palatine bones: pre- 

 operculum serrated, when young ; operculum ending with one or more spines : 

 branchiostegous rays 7. 



THE limited space to be devoted to each species in this 

 work, will not allow an opportunity of following Cuvier and 

 M. Valenciennes through the long chain of historical research 

 by which they have succeeded in clearing the European 

 Scianidez from the obscurity in which they were involved by 

 the older writers. This important branch of Ichthyological 

 history, for which Baron Cuvier was so eminently qualified 



* The family of the Maigres. 



