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SILVER PIKE. 



Esox Argenteus. E. fuscm, litteris flavicantibus pictus. Lin. 



Gmel. G. Forst. it. circa orb. 1. p. 15q. 

 Dusky Pike, variegated with yellowish characters. 



NATIVE of New Zealand and other islands in 

 the Southern Ocean, inhabiting fresh waters. 



NAKED-HEADED PIKE. 



Esox Gymnocephalus. E. waxillis &qualibus, operculis ob- 



tusissimis, capite denudato. Lin. Syst. Nat. p. 517. 

 Pike with naked jaws, very obtuse gill-covers, and naked head. 



NATIVE of India : said by Linnaeus to be of the 

 size of a Launce. 



BRASILIAN PIKE, 



Esox Brasiliensis. E. maxilla wfcriore longissimay corpore ser- 



pentino. Lin. Syst. Nat. p. 5\J. 



Fike with snake- shaped body, and very long under jaw. 

 Esox Brasiliensis. Block, t. 391. 



LENGTH about twelve or fifteen inches : body 

 long and subcylindric : scales rather large : colour 

 pale green, with five or six broad, semidecurrent, 

 brown bands across the back : abdomen silvery : 

 head formed in such a manner as to resemble that 

 of a Swordfish inverted $ the lower jaw being semi- 

 cylindric, and vastly longer than the upper : both 



