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DESCRIPTIONS. 



The first fish which we have to notice, and whicli 

 naturally follows those with which we concluded 

 the previous Volume, wnll belong to the Esoces or 

 Pikes ; these fish have been placed by some authors 

 before the Salmon, by others after them and fol- 

 lowing the true Herrings ; in either place, however, 

 they show some alliance, particularly in their ha- 

 bits. The fish alluded to is rcferrible to the genus 

 Belone of Cuvier, and may now stand here as 



GUIANA GAR-FISH. 



Belone Guiancnsis. 



PLATE I. 



L. Geral, Pira-poco (a general name for a sharp snouted 

 fish). Schomh. Drawings, No. 5Q, 



This drawing exhibits the same form as that of 

 the Esox cancilla of Hamilton Buchanan's Fishes of 

 the Ganges, pi. xxvii., and apparently also of the 

 two other fishes he describes under the same genus. 



