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four, caudal vertebrae. The two first abdominal are very short, with short oblique 

 lateral apophyses : the third is short, with two short convergent approximate ver* 

 tical apophyses beneath in its middle : the eight or nine last have long divergent 

 rib-like apophyses. In the six or seven first caudal vertebrae, the apophyses form 

 very mde arches ; especially those of the two or three first, whose arches are 

 almost circular. All the bones are peculiarly white and sub-opake, comparatively 

 with those of most fishes. 



The Sea-tench in Madeira rarely exceeds the length of two feet, or 

 the corresponding weight of four or five pounds. The example figured 

 was nineteen or twenty inches long, which is about the usual size. It was 

 of the pale or ash-coloured variety. 



An Abrotea is said once to have occurred here weighing ten pounds. 

 It was accounted quite a curiosity ; but, when cooked, proved wholly 

 worthless. Possibly, however, it might be a straggler of some other larger 

 species of the tribe, such as the Ling, Molva vulgaris, Cuv. 



