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352 Examination of the Catalogue of 



the turbot is regularly oblique ; in this species, quite a 

 projection is obvious at the chin : the flesh of the turbot 

 is much more delicate. 



Mitcheirs description of the watery- flounder^ Pleuko- 

 NECTEs aquosusj answers in most particulars to this fish ; 

 it IS probably the same. ^ 



In Professor Hitchcock's Report^ the Rhombus maxi- 

 musj or turbot, is catalogued as being found in our waters : 

 the fish 1 have thus briefly described is called here, the 

 turbot^ The fishermen tell me it is the only fish, called 

 turbot, which is caught with us. If so, there is a mis- 

 take in the catalogue ; and the turbot is not found in the 



Massachusetts 



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Jcfish 



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Under the genus OstracioNj is catalogued the species 

 bicaudalis. The specimen intended to be designated here, 

 was taken alive, three years since, among the ^ea-weed 

 on the beach, at Martha's Vineyard, and sent to the So- 



M 



In the 



Massach 



ffue 



by a figure of this identical specimen, is attempted, neither 

 of which apphes to our fish. 



The author of the above named work says, " the body 

 is marbled and dotted as it were, with black." The fish 

 there alluded to, Is on the Society's table ; not a blaqk 

 point is to be seen on any portion of its surface. 



The figure corresponds with the figure of the Ucau- 

 dalis in Strack, in Shaw's Zoology/ and Rees' Encyclo- 



Soc 



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Look at the figure : each hexagonal nlate is niain. and 



