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Habitat. Atlantic coasts of North Europe and shores of 

 the German Ocean. 



It is rare off Banff; captured at Aberdeen ; frequent 

 during May, June, and July in the Firth of Forth ; not 

 rare off Berwick ; Sunderland ; inhabits deep waters in the 

 North Sea, and is occasionally taken at Whitby and 

 Hastings ; common in Devonshire. 



In Ireland Mr. Todhunter obtained a specimen off Cape 

 Clear in the winter of 1848, and which is now in the 

 Dublin University Museum. 



The largest British specimen recorded measured 15 

 inches in length. 





GENUS 3. Rhombus, Cuvier. 

 I. Turbot (Rhombus maximus}. 



Names. .Turbot, formerly spelt turbolt. Rod, Orkneys. 

 Roddan or roan fleuk, barnock (from its round shape) and 

 gunner-fleuk, m fleuk, east coast of Scotland. Neill observes 

 that it is termed rawn fleuk or " fleuk in roe," because it is 

 deemed best for the table when in " roan " or " roe." Brat, 

 turbrat, or roddams, Northumberland. In Cornwall, accord- 

 ing to Borlase, it used to be termed brett ; in an old 

 Cornish journal it is called luggatee. Birt or byrte-fish, or 

 breat. 



B. vii., D. 61-72, V. 6, A. 45~56, Vert. -j-J, Caec. pyl. 2. 



Length of head 3^ ; height of body if to 2 in the total 

 length. Eyes. Diameter, one-sixth to one-tenth of the 

 length of the head ; one transverse diameter apart ; lower 

 eye half a diameter in advance of the upper eye, and i^ to 

 \ diameters from the end of the snout. Not only does 

 opaque and thick skin cover the upper and lateral portions 

 of the eye, but it can raise over it a thick lower eyelid, or 



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