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four eyes, though but iixo oi-bils, yet as each is furnishet! 

 with two pupils, the effect must be supposed the same, as if 

 each pupil was placed in a separate orbit. 



3. Amia. Head flattened, rough, bony, naked ; teeth nu- 



merous, sharp, erect, situated in the jaws, and palate ; 

 cirri two, placed near the nostrils ; body scaly ; gill- 

 membrane twelve rayed. 



4. Silurus. SiLURE. Head large, broad, depressed, naked ; 



mouth furnished with long tentacula ; gape exceeding- 

 ly wide, extending nearly the whole length of the 

 head ; body compressed, elongated, without scales, 

 slippery ; gill-membrane from four to seven rayed ; the 

 first ray of the pectoral ov first dorsal Jin, spinous j 

 spines recurved. 



5. Platystachus, Mouth beneath, bearded ; body without 



scales, depressed ; tail long, compressed ; in general 

 habits and aspect nearly allied to the last genus ; like 

 Avhich, all the species are marine. 



6. Loricaria. Head smooth, depressed ; mouth retractile ; 



fee/A wanting ; gill-membrane six rayed • fioofj/ covered 

 with plates. 



7. Salmo. Salmon. Rays in the gill-membrane, from 



four to ten ; teeth in the jaws, and on the tongue ; 

 dorsal fms two • the hinder one thick, fleshy, and 

 without rays. 



