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sent (lay, spi i iintiis of this jjignntic ninnjnitiulc air never seen, 

 and seventy pounds may be taken as the limit of their ordinary 

 }^rowth. Kven this, however, is a size to whieh the Sea Sahuon 

 has searcely been known to attain. 



It i> a boUl, powerlid, and tyraiiiiieal fi^h, with \\hiili iii» 

 other inhahitiii;; the same \\att is eaii eompete. The (Irey Suck- 

 ing' ("arp [Cdtd.'itoinits IItt(huniu.s)f tlic Methy, a species of fresh - 

 wattr Linj;^ {Lota Maculosa), and the llerrinjjj-sahiiun [Coreyonus 

 .Irtedi), form the favourite food of this voracious tish, tlie stomach 

 of whieh is constantly cranuncd with them ahiiost to repletion ; 

 but he will bite ravenously and ticrcely at almost anythiiifr, from 

 a small fish, or a piece of pork, to a red raj; or a bit of l)right 

 tin, made to play rapidly through the water. 



In form, he considerably resembles the Common Salmon, 

 though he is perhaps rather deeper in proportion to liis length. 

 His head is neat, small, and well-formed, with rather a peculiar 

 depression above the eye, and the snout sharply (.-urved and 

 beak-like. The head forms nearly a fourth part of the whole 

 length of the tish ; the skull is more bony than that of the 

 Common Salmon, the snout not cartilaginous, but formed of 

 solid bone; the jaws are very strong, the upjier overlajjping, 

 by about half an inch, the lower, which is strongly articulated 

 to i\\c pre-ojH'rculnm and to \.\\c jtiyal bone. The eye is midway 

 between the snout and the nape, and twice as far from the 

 hiiuler edge of the gill-eo\er as t'rom the tip of the snout. 



Of tlic gill-covers, the //rt-operrutum is curved or vertical, or 

 nearly so ; the gub'Opercttlum is deeper than in the other 'IVouts, 

 and i.H jointed at its inner angle to the operculum aiul prv-oper- 

 mluin, by a slender proccn?* concealed by these bones. Its edge 



