ON THE GENUS FLOUNDER. 519 



Holibut, 



Sole, 



Turbot, and Brill, 

 'Are said to be found in Rays Synopsis Pis- 

 cium, and two more, viz. 



The Smear Dab,* and Whiffe, 

 Are figured in the Appendix to that work 

 from the drawings of Mr. Jago.-\ These are 

 both of them described by Mr. Pennant, in 

 the British Zoology (in 1 776), the former from 

 a specimen met with in London, and the latter 

 from one taken in the estuary of the Dee near 

 Downing: as an unknown visitor upon that 

 coast, it was thought worthy of the plate given 

 of it in the Welsh tour. J 



No less than four of our species are not to 



* The different vernacular names, by which the same fish is 

 known in different districts, sometimes in near vicinity to each 

 other, may lead to error, unless the enquirer be aware of this 

 circumstance ; the Smear dab of London is the Lemon sole at 

 Bath, the Merry sole at Plymouth, the Kit at Looe, and the 

 Queen at Penzance. The Brill (formerly the Pearl) of London 

 and the eastern coast, is the Kite of Cornwall and Devonshire; at 

 Torbay the two names meet, and there it is well known by 

 either. The Lantern of Mount's boy is a Whiffe or French sole 

 at the eastern parts of Cornwall and of Plymouth. 



•f- In the plate there is the common error of engraved plates of 

 this genus ; if the eyes, &c. are placed on their natural side upon 

 the engraved copper, they are of course represented in a reversed 

 position upon the impression of it, 



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