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RIBAND-SHAPED. 



ACANTHOPTERVGII. 



RIBAND-SHAPED. 





THE VAAGMAER, 



OR DEALFISH. 



Trachypterus vogmarus. 



TrachmUerus, Bogmariis, Cuv. et Val. Hist. Nat. des I'oiss. t. x. p. 346. 



The publication of the History of British Pishes has 

 brought me into communication with Professor John Rein- 

 hardt, Curator of the Royal Museum, and also of the Uni- 

 versity Museum at Copenhagen. This gentleman, desirous 

 of supplying the deficiency, both as to figure and description, 

 which existed at the time of publishing the account of the 

 Vaagmaer, or Dealfish, British Fishes, vol. i. p. 191, lias 

 very obligingly forwarded to me a copy of his memoir, 

 printed in the Transactions of the Royal Society of Copen- 

 hagen, containing a detailed account and a figure of this fish, 

 from a specimen obtained in Iceland. By the kindness of 

 Dr. Cantor, the friend and countryman of M. Reinhardt, I 

 am enabled to present a free translation of so much of this 

 Danish paper as refers to the description of this very rare 

 fish, with a reduced figure from the plate which accompanied 

 the memoir. 



