150 



ESOX. 



The snout protruded, broad, and somewhat flattened; gape wide, the 

 palate, throat, and sides of the lower jaw thickly armed with prominent 

 teeth. Body lengthened, dorsal and anal fins single, far behind and 

 opposite each other. Abdominal fishes. 



PIKE. 



Lucius, JoNSTON; Table 29, f. 1. Willoughby; p. 236, 



Table p. 6. 

 Esox IugIus, LiNN^^ius. Cuviee. Bloch; PL 32. 



" " Donovan ; PL 109. Fleming; Br. Animals, p. 184. 



" " Jenyns; Manual, p. 417. Yarrell; Br. Fishes, 



vol. i, p. 434. 



The Pike has been long popularly known as characterized 

 by an eager and almost indiscriminate appetite, accompanied 

 with great boldness in all that relates to the satisfying of its 

 cravings; and numerous stories illustrative of this are recorded 

 in books of Natural History. We will quote a few of these, 

 from writers that are less accessible to readers in general, in 

 order to shew this predominant disposition of what has been 

 termed the tyrant of the lake and stream; and in which its 

 voracity equals, if it does not exceed, even that of the generality 

 of Sharks; although from its more limited powers and opportu- 

 nities it does not usually display them on the higher animals 

 or man. The naturalist Jonston quotes Rondeletius as saying, 

 (what I do not find in my copy of that author, A.D. 1554,) 

 that a friend of his had stopped on the border of the llhone 

 that his mule might drink, when a Pike seized the animal by 

 the lower lip, and held it so fast, that as the animal started 



