270 Pt KE. Cae 
The pectoral fins had eighteen rays, the firft the 
longeft, the others gradually fhortening ; the ventral, 
fins were compofed of twelve, and the anal of fif. 
teen, all branched at their ends; the ventral fins in 
fome are of a fine fky blue, in others as if powdered 
with blue fpecks; the ends of the other lower fins ' 
are tinged with the fame color. 
The tail is very much forked: the feales large, 
and adhere clofe to the body. 
Genus XXXV. Upper jaw fhorter than the lower. 
Body long, flender, comprefied 
fideways. 
One dorfal fin placed near 
the tail, PIKE. 
I. The P I K E.. 
Lucius. 4ufonii Mofella, 122. Pike, or Pickerel, Wil. Icth. 
Luccio. Sa/vian. 94. 236. Rati fyn- pife. 112. 
Le Brochet. Belon. 292. Itin. Efox roftro plagioplateo. Arica. 
104. Jynon. 26. 
Lucius. Rondel. fluviat. 188. Efox Lucius. Lin. ff. 516. 
Ge/ner pile. 500. Gronxov. Zooph. No. 361. 
Heket, Hecht. Schonevelde. Gjadda. Faun. /ucc. No. 355 
Adie Hecht. Kram. 388. 
HE pike is common in moft of the lakes of 
Europe, but the largeft are thofe taken in 
Lapland, which, according to Scheffer, are fome- 
times eight feet long. They are taken there in 
great abundance, dried, and exported for fale. ‘The 
Jargeft fifth of this kind which we ever heard of in 
England, weighed thirty-five pounds. 
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