MITCHILL ON THE FISHES OF NEW-YORK, 43? 



ing one hundred and five pounds, in the month of April, 1814, in the 

 waters of Long-Island. 



" Mr. Purvis, of New-York, caught a trout, weighing four pounds 

 eight ounces, measuring twenty-four inches in length. A drawing of 

 this fish remains at Fireplace, near where it was caught." 



FISTULARIA. PIPE-FISH. 



Generic character. 



Snout cylindric. Mouth terminal. Body lengthened. Gill mem- 

 brane seven rayed. 



1. New-York Trumpet Fish. (Fistularia neg-eboracencis.) With 

 lower jaw jutting beyond the upper, with approximated eye orbits, and 

 with the lateral lines almost touching the ridge of the back, a little be- 

 hind the pectoral fins. 



The specimen now before me is fourteen inches long, and very 

 slender. Of these the snout measures more than two inches and a half; 

 and a slender cartilaginous or horny continuation of the tail, about four 

 inches. 



The mouth is terminal, with a projecting lower jaw. The rostrum is 

 grooved or fluted on the sides. Eyes large, orange coloured, and ver- 

 tical. Their orbits very near to each other. 



Body soft, smooth, and scaleless, with somewhat of semi-transparency. 

 Shape roundish, and of that form (plagioplateus) whose transverse 

 diameter is greater than the perpendicular. Colour brown on the back; 

 with a dotted lateral line, and a row of pale spots on each side. Belly 

 white in the middle, and semi-diaphanous on the right and left. Though 

 the gill-openings are ordinarily closed, they, on examination, are wide 

 and capacious enough. 



