TIKE. 383 



ABDOMINAL 



MALACOPTERYGII. ESOCID&* 



THE PIKE. 



PICKERELL. JACK. LUCE. GEDD. Scotland. 



s<>.i Indus, LiNN.tL's. BLOCH, pt. i. pi. 32. 



,, Pike, PENN. Brit. Zool. vol. iii. p. 424, pi. 74. 

 ,, ,, Brocket, CUVIER, Regne An. t. ii. p. 282. 



Pike, DON. Brit. Fish. pi. 109. 

 ,, ,, FLEM. Brit. An. p. 184, sp. 55. 



Generic Characters. Head depressed, large, oblong, blunt ; jaws, palatine 

 bones, and vomer, furnished with teeth of various sizes ; body elongated, round- 

 ed on the back ; sides compressed, covered with scales; dorsal fin placed very 

 far back, over the anal fin. 



THE PIKE is a well-known inhabitant of the principal 

 rivers and lakes of Europe ; and although probably an 

 introduced fish in this country, and for a long time rare, 

 it is now exceedingly common in many of our rivers, and 

 in almost all the lakes and large ornamental waters of Eng- 

 land, Scotland, and Ireland. 



* The family of the Pikes, 



