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MARBLED SOLE. 



Pleuronectes Marmoratus. P.fuscus, maculis lineisque jlexuo&is 



lacteis. 



Brown Sole, with milk-white spots and flexuous streaks. 

 L'Achire marbr6. Cepede 4. p. 660. 



SLIGHTLY described by Cepede from Commerson : 

 shape like that of the common Sole: colour, on 

 the upper side brown, variegated or marbled with 

 differently shaped milk-white spots and marks, 

 some being circular, others long and confluent : fins 

 varied with grey and blue, and speckled with black 

 points: scales so small as to be difficultly seen: no 

 pectoral fins : along the base of the dorsal and 

 anal fins a row of pores, answering in number to 

 the rays of the fins : from these, in the living 

 animal, Commerson observed a whitish mucus to 

 exsude on pressure ; native of the Indian seas, and 

 much esteemed as a food. 



PAVONIAN SOLE. 



Pleuronectes Pavoninus. P.fuscus 9 maculis irrtgvlaribu* albidis, 



media fuscis. 



Brown Sole, with irregular whitish spots with brown centres. 

 L'Achire pavonien. Cepede. 4. p. 660. 



OBSERVED by Cepede in the collection of the 

 Prince of Orange : shape like that of the two pre- 

 ceding species ; and equally distinguished by the 

 want of pectoral fms : body brown on the upper 



