PIKE. 



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ABDOMINAL 

 MALACOPTERYGII. 



ESOCID&* 



THE PIKE. 



PICKERELL. JACK. LUCE. GEDD. Scotland. 



Esox lucius, LINNAEUS. BLOCH, pt. i. pi. 32. 



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



,, ,, Brocket, CUVIER, Jlegne 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. 



