382 LONGER SUNFISH. 



not round, but pointed, the rays fifteen; caudal fin broad (or 

 long,) not quite the whole depth of the body, an inch and a 

 half, with eighteen rays; the anal and dorsal fins measure six 

 inches, the former with eighteen rays, the latter seventeen. 

 The colour had faded, but appears to have been dark, with a 

 blue tinge above; white on the sides and below. 



In the figure of Schneider, PI. 97, and Cuvier's definition, 

 the skin is represented as hard, and divided into small six- 

 angled compartments, of which Donovan's figure shews also 

 some faint marks; but I did not discern them in the present 

 instance. This species cannot be confounded with the kindred 

 Short Sunfish, from which it differs not only in its relative 

 dimensions, but in the position of the eye, which is higher 

 in the head, in the shape of the pectoral fin, and also in the 

 tail, which falls short of the depth of the body. But it is 

 said to attain an equal size with that fish. 



