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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. Auso?iii Mosella, 122. 

 Luccio. Salvian. Q4. 

 Le Brochet. Belon, 292. Itin. 



104- 

 Lucius. Rondel. Jluviat. 188. 



Gesner pise. 500. 

 Heket, Hecht. Schonevelde, 



44. 

 Pike, or Pickerel. Wil. Ichth. 



236. Rail syn. pise. 112. 

 Esox rostro plagioplateo. Art. 



synon. 26. 

 Esox Lucius. Lin. syst. 516. 



Gm. Lin. 139O. Gronov. 



Zooph. No. 36l. 

 Gjadda. Faun. Suec. No. 355. 

 Hecht. Kram. 388. 

 Le Brochet. Duhamei Tr. des 



Pesches, ii. 522. sect. 3. 



tab. 27. Jig. 6. 

 Le Brochet. Block Ichth. 1. 



183. tab. 32. 

 L'Esoce Brochet. De la Ce- 



pede Hist, des Poissons, v. 



297. 



J_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 



