PIKE. 



883 



ABDOMINAL 

 MALACOPTERYGII. 



ESOCIDJB* 



THE PIKE. 



PiCKERELL. JACK. LUCE. — GEDD. Scotland. 



Esox lucius, LiNN^us. Bloch, pt. i. pi, 32. 



„ „ Pike, Penn. Brit. Zool. vol. iii. p. 424, pi. 74. 

 ,, ,, Brocket, Cuvier, Regne 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. 



