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ABDOMINAL 

 MAL/LCOPTERYG1I. 



ESOC1D&. 



THE GARFISH. SEA-PIKE. MACKEREL- 

 GUIDE. 



GREENBONE. HOKNFISH. LONG-NOSE. GOREBILL. 



SEA-NEEDLE. 



Betone vulgaris, CUVIER, Regne An. t. ii. p. 284. 



,, ,, Gar. FLEM. Brit. An. p. 184, sp. 56. 



Esax belone, LINNAEUS. BLOCK, pt. i. pi. 33. 



,, ,, Cur pike, PENN. Brit. Zoo\. vol. iii. p. 429. pi. 74. 



Sea-Pike, Garfish, DON. Brit. Fish. pi. 64. 



,, ,, Common JENVNS, Brit. Vert. p. 418. 



BELONE. Generic Characters. Head and body greatly elongated ; the latter 

 covered with minute scales ; both jaws very much produced, straight, narrow, 

 and pointed ; armed with numerous small teeth : the dorsal fin placed over the 

 anal fin. 



THE GARFISH, included by Linnaeus in the genus Esox, 

 and thus associated with the true Pike, was called Sea- 

 Pike ; and, on account of its leaving the deep water in 

 spring to spawn near the shore in the months of April or 

 May, preceding the Mackerel in their annual visit to shal- 

 low water for the same purpose, it has received also the 



