UJO 



THE BEKYX BOKEALIS. 



in the Scandinavian waters much exceed fourteen inches 

 in length, they attain at times in other seas a length 

 of three feet, and a weight of twenty pounds. 



The Polyprion cerniiim, Cuv. & Val., which belongs 

 to the Mediterranean and tin- Atlantic, has only in one 

 instance been captured off the coast of Norway, near Bergen 

 (lat. C0i), and at a depth of one hundred fathoms. Far- 

 ther to the north it has not been identified. Though tin- 

 individual in question only measured t\\ent\-<me inches, 

 this fish is said to reach five or six feet in length, and a 

 \\ ight of one hundred pounds. By all accounts it is very 

 voracious. Its flesh is described as white and palatable. 



IIKKY.N IIUUK.U.IS. 



The Hft'u.c boi't-nliif, von Diihcn X Korea (in"Kougliga 

 Vetenskaps-Akademiens llnn<ilm-ar," i. c. Transactions 

 of the Royal [ >>\vedi>h] Academy of Sciences, 18 1 1, p. 33, 

 tab. ii., li-s. 1, 2, from whence the accompanying illus- 

 tration is taken.) A specimen of this fish, reported to he 

 the only one known, uas captured in 1M1S) on the 



