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The Gar *. 



This fi(h is commonly known by the name of the fea* 

 needle : it makes its appearance in fummer, a little be- 

 fore the mackrel, a fifh it relembles in tafte as well as in 

 the rpurious fins near the tail. It is a long flender fifti, 

 flattened a little towards the belly, and quadrangular as 

 it approaches the tail. The head is flat, proje£ting for- 

 ward into a very long fliarp fnout, which is charafleriflic 

 of this fpecies. The fides a-,d belly are of a bright fil- 

 very colour ; the back is green, marked along the iBid> 

 die with a dark purple line ; the fides are alfo each 

 ^iilinguifhed by a line running from the gills to the 

 tail. The lower jaw projedls a great way beyond the 

 tipper, and terminates in a certam foft fubilance: on 

 both fides it is provided with teeth, like .the common 

 pike ; and the upper jaw is moveable as in the crocodile; 

 a circumfl:ance from which the gar is diftinguiflied from 

 all other fiilies,»as well as by the fuperior richnefs and 

 vivacity of its colours while in the water. 



To this genus is commonly referred the faury, a fifh 

 not enumerated by LinmEUs, but defcribed by Rondeletius 

 as an inhabitant of the Mediterranean-^. Above and be- 

 low the tail there are a number of fpurious fins, refem- 



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* Acus vqlgaris, Aldrovand. Efox Belone, Lin. Syft. 

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