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pres du cardia, est large et entoure de quatorze appendices 

 coecales, dont dix a gauche et quatre a droite, assez grasses et 

 assez longues. L'intestin remonte jusque sous le diaphragme, 

 descend jusqu'aupres de I'anus, puis retourne jusqu'aupres dii 

 pylore, d'ou il va droit a I'anus. Son dernier repli a deux 

 etranglemens assez marques. La rate est petite, au milieu de 

 I'abdomen, pres de la pointe de I'estomac. La vessie natatoire, 

 tres-grande, mince, peu argentee, s'eteud depuis le diaphragme 

 jusqu'aupres de I'anus. Tout le peritoinea un bel eclat d'argent. 

 L'estomac etait rempli d'une graude quantite de fourmis ailees, 

 de tipules de cousins et autres i^etits insectes volans, communs 

 sur les eaux donees." — (Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. 

 des Poiss. in, 54, 1829.) 



Grystes salmoides Jardine, 1835. — " D. 10, 13 or 14; A. 

 3, 11 or 12; C. 17; P. 16; V. 1, 5. 



" Growler is the provincial American name for this fish, which 

 Cuvier thinks has been given from some noise or croaking sound 

 uttered by it. Two fish only have yet been discovered which 

 will rank under its character; the present a native of North 

 America and another produced from the New Holland seas. 

 In form of the body they somewhat resemble the last, but are 

 at once distinguished from them and the preceding forms, by 

 the smoothness and the want of any covering on the head ; the 

 opercle and preopercle having neither spines nor teeth on their 

 margins. The present species, a native of the North American 

 waters, and abundant in the neighboi'hood of New York, has 

 been named Salmoides, from its resemblence to the salmon or 

 trout, being in some parts termed ' Trout.' It reaches a length 

 of two feet, is of excellent flavor, and is much esteemed as an 

 article of food ; and it afibrds sport to the angler, taking the 

 hook readily. The general colors, 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 



