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hood of New York, has been named Salmoides, 

 from Its resemblance to the Salmon or Trout, being 

 in some parts termed " Trout." It reaches a length 

 of t^yo feet, is of excellent flavour, and is much 

 esteemed as an article of food ; and it also affords 

 sport to the angler, taking the hook eagerly. The 

 general colours will be best seen from the plate an 

 unobtrusive tint of olive lightening towards 'the 

 under parts, where it becomes grayish white. The 

 first dorsal fin is weaker in proportion than most of 

 the forms we have already seen, but the last rises 

 high behind, and assumes a shape somewhat like 

 that of some of the Greylings. The tail is shaped 

 a good deal like the Salmonid<B, and in this fish 

 has a dark bar across the centre. 



The New Holland species is found in Mac- 

 quary river, and in form resembles the common 

 Perch, but the bony opercle is furnished with a 

 very slight pointed spine. The colour of th- 

 preserved specimens was a greyish violet, paler 

 beneath, with irregular blackish clouded spots. 

 The next of Cuvier's forms is 



