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TOPKNOT FLOUNDER. Glass IV. 



and less rhomboidal than the turbot * This 

 fish is now more generally called Brill than 

 Pearl : it probably derived the latter name 

 from the white pearly dots with which the up- 

 per side is sometimes very distinctly marked. 

 Upon the coasts of Devonshire and Conizvall it 

 is known by the name of Kite. 



" It is in season during the winter and 

 spring months. The London supply is first 

 from Torbay, and the western coast ; afterwards 

 principally from Sussex. The greatest com- 

 mon weight eight pounds." E. H. 



10- Top- Pleuronectes punctatus. PL 



knot. oculis sinistris, corpore lato 



asperoque. Gm. Lin. 1235. 



Descrip- 

 tion. 



Le Targeur. Block ickth. vi. 



23. tab. 188. 

 Duh. Tr. des peches iii. 266. 



tab. 5. f. 4. 



" -DODY, the fins included, is very square 

 in its form. Color of the upper side a dark and 

 somewhat reddish brown, with many star-shaped 

 or round spots of a darker color, which also 

 seem red when the light passes through them ; 

 some are large; the smaller ones of different 



* The Linnaan specific name Rhombus does not seem bet- 

 ter adapted to this species than does that of maximus to the tur- 

 bot. E. H. 



