BAIKAL DRAGONET. 1 1 9 



pressed, and wrinkled in a longitudinal direction ; 

 the mouth rough ; the tongue obtuse and emargin- 

 ated, and the lower jaw rather longer than the 

 upper : the branchial apertures large and lateral : 

 the fore part of the gill-covers furnished with a 

 double spine, and the hind part with a single one : 

 the body much depressed, and of a livid colour : 

 the vent situated in the middle of the abdomen ; 

 the first ray of the first dorsal fin very short and 

 remote from the rest : the ventral fins very remote 

 from each other. Linnoeus adds that it is a kind of 

 intermediate species, between the Callionymi, the 

 Trachini, and the Uranoscopi. 



BAIKAL DRAGONET. 



Callionymus Baikalensis. C. pinnis ventralibus nullis, dorsali 

 prima minima, secundce radiis drrhiferis. Lin. Syst. Nat. 

 Gmel. p. 1153. Pall. it. 3. p. 707. 



Dragonet without ventral fins/ the first dorsal fin very small, 

 and the second furnished with cirrhiferous rays. 



THIS species is described by Dr. Pallas, and is an 

 inhabitant of the deepest parts of the Lake Baikal, 

 from whence it occasionally wanders during the 

 summer months to the shores, appearing in con- 

 siderable numbers : the head is large, somewhat 

 quadrangular at the base and flat at the top, with 

 two tubercles on each side : the eyes are large and 

 black: the snout broad and depressed, and 



