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Pakirikiri. See Blue-cod. New Zealand. 



Pall. See Lancelet. 



Paradise-fish. Polyacanthus viridi-auratus. Indian Archipelago. 



Parr. Toung salmon. 



Parrot-fish. Various species of Scarus. North Atlantic. In 



Australia, JPseudoscarus. 

 Parrot-wrasse. Same as above. 



Parrot-jjerch. In Australian tropics. Pseudoscarus. 

 Patiki. Rliovibosolea inonopus. New Zealand. 

 Peal. Salmo camh^icus, and young of 8. solar. 

 Pelerin. SelacJie maximus. Northern seas. 

 Perch. In Britain. Perca fluviatilis ; in New South Wales, Lates 



eolonorum ; in Victoria, species of Gtenolates. 

 Pesce rey. Atlierinichtliys laticlavia. Chili. 

 Pickerell. In North America, species of Pike, Esox. 

 Pig-fish. In Sydney. Cossyphus tmimaculatus. 

 Piharau. Lampreys. New Zealand. 

 Pike. In Britain, Esox lucius, which is the name for the American 



species. In Sydney, Sphyrcena ohtusata and Lannioperca. 

 Pike-perch. Lucioperca zandra, f.w., Europe. 



Pilchard. Glupea pilcTiardus, Britain. Glupea sagax. New Zealand. 

 Pilot-fish. Naucrates ductor. 

 Pipe-fish. Species of Syngnathus. 

 Piper. Trigla lyra. Britain. 

 Plaice. Pleuronectes platessa. 

 Pla-kat. See Fighting-fish, 

 Pocket-fish. See Angler. 

 Pogge. See Hard-head. 



Pohaiakaroa, Sehastes percoides. N. Zealand. 

 Pollack. Qadus poUacliius. N. Seas. 

 Pollan. Goregoniis pollan, f.w. Ireland. 

 Polwig. Pry of Groby. 

 Pope. Acerina cernua, f.w. N. Europe. 

 Porbeagle. Lamna eornubica, a shark. N. Seas. 

 Porgy. See Mishcup. 



Port Jackson shark, species of JSeterodontus. 

 Pout. See Bib. 



Powan or powen. See Gwyniad. 

 Pride. A Lamprey. Petromyzon hrancliialus. 

 Prussian carp. See Crucian carp. 

 Pundy. See Murray-cod. 

 Pumpkin-seed. See Sunny. 



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Eabbit-fish. See King of the herrings. 



Bay. The name applied to the Division Batoidie, of the Order 



Chondeopteetgii. 

 Bed-dace. Leuciscus leuciscus. Britain. 

 Bed-eye. Leuciscus erythroplithalimis. Europe. 

 Bed-fin. See above, also L. cormitus. N. America, f.w. 

 Bed-flathead. Platyceplmhis hassensis. Australia. 

 Bed-gurnard. See Eumu-kmnu. In Melbourne, Sebastes percoides 



also Bed Bock-o;urnard. 



