WHIFF. 



Pleuronectes Punctatus. P.fuscus, maculis mgricantibus, punctis 



rubris, squamis aspens. 

 Brown Flounder, with blackish spots, red freckles, and rough 



scales. 

 Pleuronectes punctatus. P. corpore lato asperoquc. Lin. Syst. 



Nat. Gwd. Block, t. 1 89. 

 The Whiff. Penn. brit. zoo/. 3. ? 



THIS, says Mr. Pennant, bears some resemblance 

 to the Holibut : the length of a specimen examined 

 by that author was eighteen inches ; the greatest 

 breadth not seven, exclusive of the fins : the mouth 

 was extremely large ; the teeth very small ; the 

 under jaw hooked over the upper - } the eyes were 

 large ; the scales large and rough ; the side-line 

 tuberculated and uncommonly incurvated at the 

 beginning, making a sharp angle, and hen going 

 strait to the tail, which is rounded : the colour of 

 the body was cinereous brown, clouded in parts, 

 and obscurely spotted : the under side white, tinged 

 with red. 



The figure of this species in the work of Dr. 

 Bloch is represented as of a dusky brown above, 

 with numerous, rather large, roundish black spots 

 of unequal sizes, between which are interspersed 

 several very small red spots. In these particulars 

 it seems to agree much better with the description 

 contained in Ray's synonym than the Smear-Dab, 

 which Mr. Pennant supposes to be the Kit of the 

 Cornish fishermen. 



