430 SAURY PIKE. Class IV. 



large ; the irides silvery ; the nostrils wide and 

 round ; the body is slender ; the belly quite flat, 

 bounded on both sides by a rough line; the 

 pectoral fins consist of fourteen rays ; the ven- 

 tral fin, small and placed very remote from the 

 head, consists of seven rays, the first spiny ; the 

 dorsal fin lies on the very lowest part of the back, 

 and consists of sixteen rays ; the first are high, 

 the others lower as they approach the tail ; the 

 anal fin is of the same form, and placed oppo- 

 site to the other, and has twenty-one rays ; the 

 tail is much forked. The colors are extremely 

 beautiful when the fish is in the water; the 

 back of a fine green; beneath that appears a 

 rich changeable blue and purple ; the sides and 

 belly are of a fine silvery hue. 



3. Saury. Saurus. Rondel pise. 232. Syn. pise. iGg. 



Gesner pise. iv. 468. The Saury. Tour Scotland 



Racket in Lin. Tr. vii. 60. 1769. 



tab. 5. Neill in Mem. Wern. Soc. 



Skipper, Cornubicnsium. Rail 541. 



Descrip. Jl HE length is from eleven to eighteen inches ; 

 the nose slender ; the jaws produced like those 

 of the gar pike, but of equal length; the 

 mandibles a little incurvated upwards, like the 

 bill of the Avoset. The eyes are large; the 



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