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CHINESE PIKE. * 



Esox Chinensis. E n capite gracili, maxilla inferior e longiore, 



oculis magnis prominulis. 

 Pike with slender head, lower jaw longer than the upper, and 



large protuberant eyes. 

 Sphyraena Chinensis. Cepede. 5. p. 327. 



SLIGHTLY described by Cepede from the MSS. of 

 Commerson ; scales middle sized : native of the 

 Indian seas : general colour green with a cast of 

 silver. 



GOLD-GREEN PIKE. 



Esox Aureoviridis. E. aureo-viridis, pihnis dorsalibus duabus, 



ore acuto, maxilla infcriore longiore. 

 Gold-green Pike, with two dorsal fins, and sharp-pointed mouth 



with the lower jaw longer than the upper. 

 Sphyraena aureo-viridis. Cepede. 5. p. 3 29. 



AN elegant species, according to Cepede, who 

 describes and figures it from the drawings of Plu- 

 mier. Habit resembling some of the Spari : head 

 pointed : colour as expressed in the specific cha- 

 racter : scales middle-sized : at the base of the first 

 dorsal fin a somewhat strong spine : tail forked or 

 lunated. Native of the American seas. 



