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In Ireland it is taken round the coast, and is plentiful to 

 the north. 



As to the size it attains in this country, accounts vary, as 

 in some places the halibut is termed a turbot. Thompson 

 mentions one 44^- Ibs. weight, captured in a trammel in four 

 fathoms of water at Springvale, county Down. Buckland 

 took a cast of one which weighed 32 Ibs. Parnell records 

 on hearsay one weighing 190 Ibs., and Couch possessed a 

 note of one 70 Ibs. in weight. 



2. Brill (Rhombus Icsvis). 



Names. Pearl, kite, brett, "brit" in Cornish means 

 spotted." Upon the coasts of Devonshire and Cornwall 

 it is known by the name of "kite" (Pennant, ed. 1812) ; 

 Bastard turbot, Moray Firth ; siller fluke, Aberdeen ; bonnet 

 fluck, Aberlady Bay ; used to be termed lug-a-leafm Corn- 

 wall (Willughby). 



B. vii., D. 76-85, V. 6, A. 53-63, L. i, 150, Caec. pyl. 2, 

 Vert. if. 



Length of head 3-f- to 4^ ; height of body 2 to 2\ in 

 the total length. Eyes. On the left side, the lower half 

 (quarter in the young) in advance of the upper ; I diameter 

 apart. Its eye externally is similar to that of the turbot. 

 Lower jaw projecting and the longer ; the maxilla two-fifths 

 the length of the head, and reaches to below the posterior 

 third or hind edge of the lower orbit. Teeth. Small ones 

 in jaws and on vomer, none on the palatine bones. Fins. 

 Dorsal commences on the snout, its first few rays having 

 broad fringes which divide so as to give them a brush-like 

 appearance ; its rays are branched, and the longest behind 

 the middle of the fin. Caudal rounded. Scales. Small, 

 cycloid, continued on to the head and vertical fin rays ; no 





