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IV. Description of a Swordfish found in the Frith 

 of Forth in June 1811. 



By William Elford Leach, Esq; F. L. S.— W. S. &c» 



(Read 9,1th July 1811 J 



XipHiAs Rondeletii* 



PI. II. Fig. 1. 



JL. Corpore sub-scabro, linea laterali nulla ; pinnis dor- 

 sali analique interruptis. 



Long. Corp. — rostro incluso, PeL 8. unc. 3, 

 Habitat — in mare Britannico, piscibus minoribus victi« 

 tans. 



J)escr. — Rostrum compressum, supra trisulcatum ni- 

 grum, infra su^)-carinatum albicans. Oculi sub-argenteo- 

 yiridescentes, pupillo pulvinato-albicante-cceruleo-atro, 

 (Membrana branchiostega S-radiata.'^) Derma sub-scabra, 

 (iorso nigricante, ventre latertbusq\:^e, argenteo-albis. Pinna 

 pectoralis argentea, prseter marginem anticam supra quae 

 nigridine gaudet. Pinna dorsalis nigra, interrupta, inter- 

 vallo exarato. Pinna amlis coeruleo-nigra interrupta^ 

 |!iiNEA lateralis nulla. 



The specimen from which we drew the above de- 

 scription, was taken by some fishermen at Queens- 



