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Scale foot. Local name. 

 Peixe Espada. Portuguese. 



Hab. — Coast, (occasional). ^^ 



Skin. Salcomb, Devonshire, (Mus. Montagu). 



6. TRICHIURUS. 



Tricliiuriis, L. Gray^ Zool. Misc. 9. 

 Lepturus, Artedi. 



Gymnogaster, p., Gronov. Mus. Ichth. i. 17, 1754. 

 Clupea, p., Forsk. 



1. Trichiurus Lepturus.? Silvery Hair-tail. 



Trichiurus Lepturus, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. 429. Hoy in Linn. Trans. 



XI. 210. Flem. Brit. An. 204. Block, Ichth. pi. 158? Block, 



Sckneid. Si/st. Ichth. 517. Lacep. Poiss. ii. 181, pi. 7, f. 1. 



Cuv. R. A. ii. 218. ? Cuv. ^ Val. Poiss. viii. 237. Jen. Man. 



372. Yarr. Brit. Fish. i. 182. Id. 2 ed. i. 204. 

 Trichiurus armatus. Gray, Zool. Misc. 9. 

 Blade-fish, Fleming. 



Hab. — Coast, (occasional). 



7. XIPHIAS. 



Xiphias, Cuv. R. A. ii. 326, 1817. 

 Xiphias, p., Linn. 



1. Xiphias Gladius. Common Sword Fish. B. M. 



Xiphias gladius, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. 432. Block, Ickth. pi. 76. 



Flem. Brewster's Journ. ii. 187. Turton, Brit. Faun. p. 88. 



Flem. Brit. An. 220. Cuv. R. A. ii. 201. Cuv. ^- Val. Poiss. 



viii. 255, t. 225, t. 226, t. 231. Jen. Man. 364. Yarr. Brit. 



Fisk. i. 143. Id. 2 ed. i. 164 (adult), 169 (jun.) Parn. Fish. 



Firth of Forth, 55. JVern. Mem. vii. 215. 

 Xiphias Rondelelii, Leack in Wern. Mem. ii. 58, pi. 2, f. 1. Zool. 



Misc. i. 62, pi. 27. 

 Sword Fish, Will. Hist. Pise. 161, tab. L. 27, f. 2. 

 Sicilian Sword-fish, Perm. Brit. Zool. iii. 141, pi. 26. Id. (edit. 



1812), iii. 216, pi. 30. Knox in Edinh. Journ. of Nat. and 



Geog. Sci. ii. 427. 



Hab. — Coast, (occasional). 

 Stuffed specimen. Margate. 



