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THE SALMON-FORMED GROWLEB, 



Grystes salmoides Cuv. et VAL. 

 PLATE XXIX. 



Le Growler Salmoide, Grystes salmoides, Cuv. et Valen. 

 Hist. Nat. des Poissons, iii. p. 54. 



D. 10.13 or 14; A. ail or 12; C. 17; P. 16; V. 1.5. 



GROWLER is the provincial American name for 

 this fish, which Cuvier thinks has been given 

 from some noise or croaking sound uttered by 

 it. Two fish only have yet been discovered 

 which will rank under its character ; the present, 

 a native of North America, and another procured 

 from the New Holland Seas. In form of the 

 body they somewhat resemble the last, but are at 

 once distinguished from them and the preceding 

 forms we have seen, by the smoothness and the 

 want of any covering upon the head ; the opercle 

 and preopercle having neither spines nor teeth 

 on their margins. 



The present species, a native of the North 

 American rivers, and abundant in the neighbour- 



