Class IV. 



CONGER. 



'47 



Kfrfyfoc. Arift. Hijl. an. lib. 



I. &c. 

 Toyypog Oppian Halieut. I. 



113. 521. 

 Conger. O-vidii Halieut. 115. 



Plinii lib. IX. c. 16. 20. 

 Le Congre. Belon 159. 

 Conger. Rondel. 394. Gefner 



pifc. 290. 

 The Conger, or Conger Eel. 



Wil Icth. III. Rail fyn. °4* Conger, 



f*F- 37- 



Murasnafupremo margine pin- 

 nae dorfalis nigro. Arted. 

 fynon. 40. 



Murasna Conger. M. roftio 

 tentaculis duobus, linea la- 

 terali ex pundtis albida. 

 Lin. Jyft. 426. 



>*TpHE conger grows to a vaft fize. Doctor Size* 



■*; Bcrlafe, to whom we are obliged for feveral 

 informations relating to this fpecies, aftures us, 

 that they are fometimes taken near Mounts-Bay of 

 one hundred pounds weight *. 



. They differ from the common eel in the follow- Descrip. 

 ing particulars : i. Their color in general is more 

 dark. 2. Their eyes much larger in proportion. 

 3. The irides of a bright filvery color. 4. The 

 lower jaw is rather fhorter than the upper. 5. 

 The fide line is broad, whitilh, and marked with 

 a row of fmall fpots ; Mr. Ray fays a double row, 

 but we did not obferve it in the fifli we examined. 



6. The edges of the dorfal and anal fins are black. 



7. They have more bones than the common eel, 



* We have heard of fome taken near Scarborough that were 

 ten feet and a half long, and eighteen inches in circumference 

 in the thickeit part. 



L 2 efpecially 



