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ZOOLOGY. 



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69. ACIPENSER ACDTIROSTRIS, Ayres. 



Body subfusiform. Head slender and depressed ; snout tapering and acute. Eleven dorsal 

 shields from the occiput to the anterior margin of the dorsal fin ; twenty-seven shields in the 

 lateral series, and nine hetween the pectorals and the ventral fins. Greyish black above ; 

 yellowish white beneath. 



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Body fusiform. Head stoutish ; snout rounded anteriorly, and abbreviated. Eleven dorsal 

 shields from the occiput to the anterior margin of the dorsal fin ; thirty-seven shields *in the 

 lateral series, and nine between the pectorals and ventral fins. Reddish brown above ; yel- 

 lowish beneath. 



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