424 COMMON PIKE. Class IV. 



GENUS XLII. PIKE. 



Jaw upper shorter than the lower. 

 Body long, slender, compressed sideways. 

 Fin one dorsal placed near the tail. 



1. Common. Lucius. Ausonii Mosella, 122. Gm. Lin. 13Q0. Gronov. 



Luccio. Salvian. g4. Zooph. N0.361. 



Le Brochet. Belon,2Q2- I tin. Gjadda. Faun. Suec. No. 355- 



104. Hecht. Kram. 388. 



Lucius. Rondel, fiuviat. 188. Le Brochet. Dtthamel Tr.< des 



Gesner pise. 500. Pesches, ii. 522. sect. 3. 



Heket, Hecht. Schonevelde, tab. 27- jig- 6- 



44. Le Brochet. Block Ichth. i. 



Pike, or Pickerel. Wil. Ichth. 183. tab. 32. 



236. Raii syn. pise. 112. L'Esoce Brochet. He la Ce- 



Esox rostro plagioplateo. Art. pede Hist, des Poissoiis, v. 



synon. 26. 297. 

 Esox Lucius. Lin. syst. 51 6. 



JL HE pike is common in most of the lakes of 

 Europe, but the largest are those taken in Lap- 

 land, which, according to Schceffer, are some- 

 times eight feet long ; they are taken there in 

 great abundance, dried, and exported for sale. 

 The largest fish of this kind which we ever 

 heard of in England, weighed thirty-five pounds. 

 According to the common saying, these fish 



