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gill-cover is not less formidable, when an allowance is made 

 for the smaller size of the fish. The lines exist which cor- 

 respond with those which adorn the body of the Greater 

 Weever, but they are more faintly marked, and not so numerous. 

 The fins are much alike, except that the first dorsal seems 

 shorter, and the tail is not concave, but a little rounded. The 

 colour is mottled, on a ground of yellowish brown, with some 

 cross bars on the head and beginning of the back. 



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