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HALF-BILLED GAR-FISH. 



In smooth weather at the mouth of our rivers, the water 

 *• sometimes seen almost covered with a curious gar-fish, 

 whose upper mandible is very short, while the lower is as 

 long as the ordinary gar-fish. Its snout forms a perfect 

 counter-part to that of the scissors-bill. 

 Hemiramphus. 



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PIKE. 



I have not met with pike in these Provinces, but it pro- 

 bably exists, for Capt. Phayre sent Dr. M'Clelland a spe- 

 cies from Arracan, and M'Clelland wrote in his Journal ; 

 "We have been favoured by Lieut. Phayre with two fishes 

 from Arracan, one a species of cyprinus from the Lemgoo 

 river, the other a kind of pike." But I am not aware that 

 it has been described. 

 Esox. 



TENASSERIM SOLE. 



A small fish of the sole family that grows to nine inch- 

 es or a foot long, is sometimes seen in bazar. It ha? 

 no pectoral fins, and the dorsal, caudal and ventral fins 

 are united, so it is a species of plagusia. The natives 

 think that two of them always swim together, with their 

 flat, uncoloured sides united. 

 Plagusia. 



BRACHIRUS TURBOT. 



A small flat fish with the aspect of the turbot, with two 

 pectorals, the dorsal, caudal and anal united, and of 3. 

 dark grey colour on the upper or right side, is sometimes 

 in market. 



Brachirus, Swain. 



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