Class IV. 



CONGER, 



%4f 



KoT/^o;. Arift, Hift. an. lih. 



I. &c. 

 Toyypot; Oppian Halieut. I. 



113. 521. 

 Conger. Q-vidii Halieut. 115. 



Plinii lib. IX. c. 16. 20.. 

 Le Congre. Belon 159, 

 Conger. Rondel. 394. Gef?ter 



pifc. 290. 

 The Conger, or Conger Eel. 



Wil. Icth. III. Raii fyn. ^4- Coi^'GEi: 



/z/r. 37. 

 Muraenafupremo marginepin= 



nse dorfalis nigro. Arte4* 



fynon, 40. 

 Murasna Conger. M. roftro 



tentaculis duobus, linea la- 

 teral! ex pun6lis albida, 



Lin, Jyji, 426. 



'T^HE conger grows to a vafl: fize. Do6tor 

 ^ Borlafe., to whom we are obliged for feveral 

 informations relating to this fpecies, aflures us, 

 that they are fometimes taken near Mounfs-Bay of 

 one hundred pounds weight *". 



They differ from the common eel in the follow- 

 ing particulars : i. Their color in general is more 

 dark. 2. Their eyes much larger in proportion, 

 3. The irides of a bright filvery color. 4. The 

 lower jav/ is rather fhorter than the upper. 5, 

 The fide line is broad, whitifh, and marked with 

 a row of fmall fpots ; Mr. Ray fays a double row^ 

 but we did not obferve it in the fifh we examinedp 



6. The edges of the dorfal and anal fins are black, 



7. They have more bones than the comm.on eel^i 



Si??i 



DESCI^lPt 



* We have heard of fome taken near Scarlorough that vver$ 

 ten feet and a half long, and eighteen inches in circumfereijc^ 

 in the thickell: part, 



L 2 efpecially 



