LONG PLOUNDKR. 



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SUnHliACIIIAL 

 MALACOPTERYGII. 



PLEURONECTIDjE. 



THE LONG FLOUNDER. 



Platessa elongala, The Long Flounder, Yaurell, Suppl. to Brit. Fishes. 



I AM indebted to Mr. Baker, of Bridgcwater, for several 

 interesting communications on Birds and Fishes, one of the 

 most vahiable of -which is the opportunity afforded me of 

 making known what appeared to that gentleman to be a spe- 

 cies of Flounder undescribed as a British Fish, and which, 

 after having made the usual search, I have reason to believe 

 is not only undescribed as a British Fish, but is altogether 

 new to Ichthyology. I have only as yet seen the single 

 specimen sent me for my use on this occasion by Mr. Baker, 

 from which a drawing has been made of the natural size, and 

 the reduced representation here given engraved on wood ; 

 but I understand from IMr. Baker's son that his father had 

 obtained a second example of the same fish. The specimen 

 now before me was obtained at Stoford, in Bridgcwater Bay, 

 in the month of December. Little is of course known of 

 the habits of so recent and so rare an acquisition. 



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