THE COMMON BRITISH STURGEON. 



edition of British Fishes, resembles the young Sturgeon 

 of the Free Kirk Museum in the middle ledge of the 

 ventral aspect of the snout, not being dilated gradually 

 towards the point, as in the larger examples. The scale 

 is too small to give a correct idea of the form of the lips, 

 and the figure was probably taken from a small and dried 

 specimen. 



This wood-cut, which was introduced into the second 

 edition of British Fishes, represents an arrangement of 

 the cranial shields, differing from all the Frith of Forth 

 examples in the want of the interfrontal plates, and in 

 the longer tapering prolongation of the salient process of 

 the occipital shield : the squamosals, it will be observed, 

 are distinct pieces. The British Museum possesses a 

 Sturgeon from Teignmouth which is four feet and three- 



