A^'-l 



On the pooN 



Or,ier IV. 

 PHYSOSTOMI. 



Family 

 ESOCID.E. 



f^IKE. 



fEsox Indus. J 



Lucius, 



Esox rostra phigioplateo, 

 Esox bicius. 



Pike or Pickerell, 



AusoNius, Id. X. 122; Gesner, De Aquat. p. 500; Willughby, Hist. 



Pise. p. 236. 

 Artedi, Spec. Pise. p. 26 No. i. 

 Lin., Sys. Nat. i. p. 516; Donov., Brit. Fish. v. pi. 109; Jenyn.s' Man. 



p. 417; GOnther's Cat. vi. p. 226; Siebold, Siisserwasserf. p. 325. 

 Willughby, p. 236; Pennant, Brit. Zool. iii. p. 424, ed. 1812; Yarrell, 



i. p. 434; Couch, Fish. Brit. Isl. iv. p. ijo. 



Characters of the Genus Esox. — "Body elongate, covered with small cycloid scales, many with a muciferous channel ; 

 lateral line distinct ; eye of moderate size. Snout elongate, broad, depressed, with the lower jaw the longer; cleft 

 of the mouth very wide. Teeth of the mandible in a single series, unequal in size; some large; intermaxillary, 

 vomer, palatine, and hyoid bones with bands of cardiform teeth; maxillary toothless. Dorsal fin opposite the anal. 

 Caudal forked." — Gdnther. 



THE Pike was probably unknown to the ancient Greeks; at any rate there is no mention 

 of this fish in any Greek author; among the Latins, Ausonius is the only writer who 

 clearly alludes to it in the followinq- lines: — 



