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HAIRTAIL. 



pointed, two inches and three eighths long. The back rises 

 from the head to the origin of the dorsal fin; and this fin 

 begins above the border of the anterior gill-cover. The colour 

 from the point of the jaAvs, along the back, brown; a lighter 

 brown on the hinder portion of the body; gill-covers ° and 

 sides inclined to blue; margin of the body, to the vent, pink; 

 pectoral fin tinted with blue; dorsal with a tinge of reddish 

 brown; iris yellow. 



