ClasIV. LONGER PIPE FISH. 107 
The irides were red; behind each eye was a deep 
brown line. 
The body, in the thickeft part, was about equal 
to a fwan’s quil, and angular; but the angles not 
being very fharp, they were not eafily feen till the 
fifh was dried: the belly was flightly carinated, 
and marked along the middle with a dufky line. 
The general color of the fifh was an olive brown : 
the fides marked with numbers of bluifh lines point- 
ing from the back te the belly, which, in dried fifh, 
feemed like the figns of fo many joints. Thofe in 
a frefh fubject ceafed beyond the vent ; all beyond 
that was {potted with brown. 
The dorfal fin was narrow and thin, confiftine of 
thirty-eight rays, was two inches long, and placed 
rather nearer to the head than the tail. 
The vent was feven inches from the tip of the 
nofe; the body to that orifice was of an equal 
thicknefs, but from thence tapered to a very {mall 
point, having no mark of a fin. : 
The pectoral fins were alfo wanting; in fhort, all 
except the back fin. | 
When this fifh and the next fpecies are dried, they 
appear covered with numbers of angular crutts, 
finely radiated from their centre. 
They are viviparous ; for on crufhing one that was 
juft taken, hundreds of very minute ones were ab- — 
ferved to craw] about. 
As we want a generical name in our language for 
this genus, we call it the Pipe Fi/h, from its flender 
body. 
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