Clafs IV. Be A A) Age 273 
Pikes fpawn in March or April, according to the 
~ coldnefs or warmth of the weather. When they 
are in high feafon their ‘colors are very fine, being 
green, {potted with bright yellow ; and the gills are 
~ of a moft vivid and full red. When out of feafon, 
the green changes to grey, and the yellow fpots turn 
pale. 
The head is very flat; the upper jaw broad, 
and is fhorter than the lower: the under jaw turns 
up a little at the end, and is marked with minute 
punctures. _ 
The teeth are very fharp, difpofed only in the 
front of the upper jaw, but in both fides of the 
lower, in the roof of the mouth, and often the 
tongue. The flit of the mouth, or the gape, is: 
very wide; the eyes fmall. 
The dorfal fin is placed very low on the back, 
and confifts of twenty-one rays; the pectoral of 
‘fifteen ; the ventral of eleven ; the anal of eighteen, 
The tail is bifurcated. 
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