412 pisces. 



Whiting Paulet [or Pollack {Merlangus Pollachius, Cuv.)] . 



It is very much like a cod ; and has a sound -which divides at the top. 

 The anus is in the middle of the belly, so that the guts go much lower 

 towards the tail than the anus does. There are many cseca at the 

 pylorus. There were a vast number of small red worms in the abdo- 

 men and about the caeca, which seemed to have been formed first in the 

 stomach and to have ate their way through. The liver extends the 

 whole length of the abdomen, and consists of two lobes; there is a 

 complete tunica conjunctiva : the optic nerve runs across. The ear is 

 like a cod's. The two ureters pass by the side of the caecum into the 

 bladder, which passes upwards to the anus, when it opens externally. 

 The ovaria are two bags which have one canal opening between the 

 anus and urethra. 



[Order Malacopteri.] 



The Pike [Esox Lucius, Linn. 1 ]. 



The stomach passes down almost as low as the anus in a straight line, 

 then turns quickly; but at this bend is the pylorus. The intestine 

 goes straight up as high as the upper part of the abdomen, then makes 

 a quick turn down, and passes all the way to the anus in a straight 

 line. The soft melt, or testicle, lies all along the side of the abdomen ; 

 that on the left lies on the outside of the stomach and close to it, that 

 on the right lies on the outside of the last intestine ; they are almost 

 the whole length of the abdomen. The lower end has the vas deferens 

 passing from it, which terminates at the opening of the urethra ex- 

 ternally -. 



The liver consists of one long lobe, having the gall-bladder attached 

 to the posterior or upper surface, of a pyramidal figure, the small end 

 terminating in the duct which passes towards the tail along the upper 

 surface, or that surface which is next to the back, in a contrary direc- 

 tion to the human ; and goes in a straight line to the gut, where it 

 enters, about two inches from the pylorus : they have no pancreas that 

 I could see. 



The spleen lies at the pylorus, close on the bend at that part, and 

 pretty strongly connected there. 



The kidneys lie along the back ; at the upper part they project for- 



1 [The skeleton of this fish is No. 48, Hunt. Osteol. Series.] 

 " [Hunt. Prep. Phvs. Series, No. 2381. The female organs are shown in Nos. 

 2672, 3216.] 



