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PECTORAL FINS FEET-LIKE. 



Colour of the whole upper surface of the body uniform 

 brown ; fin membranes darker ; under surface of the body, 

 ventral, and pectoral fins, white ; tail dark brown, almost 

 black. 



The figure at the head of this article represents this fish 

 as seen from above. To give a better notion of its capacity 

 to contain food, an outline vignette of a side view is added. 



Mr. Couch informs me by letter that he has reason to 

 believe he saw a specimen of Lophius parvipinnis of Cuvier, 

 and regrets that circumstances prevented his taking a minute 

 description. It was of small size, scarcely exceeding fifteen 

 inches in length, thicker in form than the common Angler, 

 with somewhat of a different structure of the pectorals, and 

 regularly and even beautifully mottled with black patches. 



Two short notices of another species of Lophius are sup- 

 posed to refer to mutilated examples of L. piscatorius, or to 

 specimens deformed in drying. 



