BRILL. 241 



from whence the principal part of the supply for the London 

 market is derived. It has been taken also at Belfast. In 

 its food, as well as in its season of spawning, it is similar to 

 the Turbot, but does not usually appear so large, seldom 

 exceeding eight pounds in weight. It should be borne in 

 mind, that the Kite of the Devonshire and Cornish coasts is 

 the same as the Brill ; but that the Kit of Jago is the smooth 

 or small-headed Dab, figured and described in this volume at 

 page 221. 



The writer of the supplementary part to the Class Fishes, 

 in Mr. Griffith's edition of Cuvier's Animal Kingdom, says 

 that the enormous fish presented to the Roman Emperor 

 Domitian was a Brill, Rhombus vulgaris of Cuvier, and not 

 the Turbot ; but the authority or the reasons for this opinion 

 are not given. Bloch, in his account of the Brill, makes a 

 similar statement. 



The length of the head from the point of the lower jaw to 

 the edge of the operculum is, when compared to the length 

 of the body alone without the head or caudal rays, as one to 

 two ; the breadth of the body, dorsal and anal fins excluded, 

 equal to half the whole length of the entire fish ; the whole 

 breadth, dorsal and anal fins included, is to the whole length 

 as two to three : the form of the body rhomboidal ; the sur- 

 face perfectly smooth ; the position and extent of the fins 

 very similar to those of the Turbot last described ; a few of 

 the most anterior rays of the dorsal fin extend beyond the 

 connecting membrane ; the tail rounded. 



The fin-rays in number are — 



D. 76 : P. 10 : V. 6 : A. 59 : C. 16. Vertebrae 35. 



The mouth is large, deeply cleft ; under jaw the longest ; 

 teeth numerous, small, pointed, and sharp : the upper eye 

 behind the lower one in a vertical line ; irides yellow : cheek 



