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ESOCID.E. 



ABDOMINAL 

 MALACOPTERYGII. 



ESOCID.-K. 



THE SAURY PIKE. SKIPPER. 



GOWDNOOK. Scotland. 



Scnmberesox saurus, Saury, FLEM. Brit. An. p. 184, sp. 57. 



,, ,, CUVIER, Regne An. t. ii. p. 285. 



Esox ,, Siiury Pike, PENN. Brit. Zool. vol. iii. p. 430, pi. 75. 



,, Skipper Pike, DON. Brit. Fish. pi. 116. 



Tielone ,, ,, or Saury, JENYNS, Brit. Vert. p. 419. 



SCOMBERESOX. Generic Characters. The species of this genus, instituted by 

 Lacepede, have the same structure of the jaws as those of Belone, last describ- 

 ed ; and are similar also in the form of body and scales, with a keel-like edge to 

 the belly ; but the posterior portions of the dorsal and anal fins are divided, 

 forming finlets, as in the Mackerel. 



THE SAURY PIKE, or Skipper, was first described as 

 a British species by Ray : those he saw were taken on the 

 Cornish coast. It was also known to Rondeletius and Ges- 

 ner ; but has not been noticed either by Linnseus, Gmelin, 

 or Bloch. The Rev. Mr. Low, in his Natural History 

 of Orkney, says, that the year preceding that in which he 

 wrote his Fauna Orcadcnsis, such a glut of these fish set 

 into the head of Kerston Bay, that they could be taken 



