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Dorsal fin long, reaching nearly to caudal, and with a 

 series of pores near the base. Anal fin similar. A few 

 feeble spines, generally three, in front of each. Pectorals 

 long. Colour : bluish above, below white, with silvery 

 reflection. Head four, depth two and a half. The fin 

 formula is, D. Ill, 44. A. Ill, 38. Length six inches. 

 A specimen in possession of Wm. M. McLean, St. John, 

 furnished the above description. As is the case with the 

 Sea Raven, H. Aynericanus Cuv. and Yal., full-grown 

 Dollar Fish are seldom seen in St. John harbour. They 

 are said to attain the length of ten inches, and to be very 

 palatable pan-fish. 



Scomberesox saurus Walbaum. Bill Fish. Saury. 



This little pelagic fish is exceedingly rare on our 

 coast. The writer is not aware that it was ever observed 

 in the Bay of Fundy=^; and but one instance of its occur- 

 rence on the Gulf Shore has come to his notice, when 

 several years ago a specimen was taken on the northern 

 side of Miramichi Bay and sent to the writer by Dr. A. 

 C. Smith, Inspector of Leprosy, Newcastle. It was 

 mounted, but subsequently lost. The body was smelt- 

 like, the scales too, being small, and deciduous. Dorsal 

 outline but little curved. Head moderate, compressed 

 so as to be very narrow below. Jaws prolonged into a 

 slender beak, quite as long as the rest of the head, the 

 lower jaw being the longer. Dorsal opposite anal, and 

 both somewhat broken up into finlets posteriorly. Cau- 

 dal deeply forked. Head three and a half. Depth 

 eight and a half. D. 9, VI. A. 12, V. Length nine 

 inches. 



* The author has since learned that Dr. Bailey, of the University of N. B., 

 has one from the vicinity of St. Stephen, Bay of Fundy. See list. 



