()-i HAIRTAIL. 



pointed, two inches and three eighths long. The back rises 

 from the head to the origin of the dorsal fin; and this fiu 

 begins above the border of the anterior gill-cover. The colour 

 from the point of the jaws, along the back, brown; a lighter 

 brown on the hinder portion of the body; gill-covers and 

 sides inclined to blue; margin of the body, to the vent, pink; 

 pectoral fin tinted with blue; dorsal with a tinge of reddish 

 brown; iris yellow. 



