3 
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392 — Storer on the _ 
The Pectorals arise on a line with the dorsal; 
their height to their length is as 2 to 1. 
The Ventrals are situated back of the pectorals ; 
the first ray spinous. 
The Anal fin has its "first ue. rays pinea; its 
length to its height as 2 to 1. 
The Caudal fin is nearly even at the tip; its rays 
one third longer than high. 
The fin rays are as follows: B. 5; D. 18-11; P. 
15; 4565 4.14; C.-106, 
Famity XV. 
 FISTULARIDAE. 
Fistuuaria. Lin. 
Generic characters. A single dorsal, most of 
which, as well as of the anal, is composed of simple 
rays. The intermazillaries and the lower jaw are 
armed with small teeth. From the two lobes of the 
caudal proceeds a filament which is sometimes as 
long as the body. The tube of the snout is very 
long and depressed, the natatory bladder excess- 
md small, and the es invisible. 
F. serrata. Bloch. The Tobacco-pipe Fish. 
Although Richardson, in his “ Fauna,” observes 
that the “ Fistularia tabaccaria frequents the coast 
of the United States,” it must be exceedingly rare 
in the waters which border New England ; as 1 have 
neither met with one myself, nor heard of one’s 
being seen by any individual whose accuracy could 
