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WEST-INDIAN PIKE. 



Esox Synodus. E» pinna in medio dorsi, memhrana branchiosfega 

 quinqueradiata, Lin, Syst. Nat. p, 5l6. 



Pike with the dorsal fin on the middle of the back, and five- 

 rayed gill-membrane. 



Greatly allied to the E. Vulpes. Native of the 

 American seas, and according to Cepede sometimes 

 found in the Mediterranean : body marked by a 

 few transverse dusky bands : scales large : abdo- 

 men silvery : fins striped with black. 



SILVER-STRIPE PIKE. 



Esox Hepsetus. E. linea laterali argentea. Lin, Syst, Nat,. 



p. 5iy, Piquitinga, Marcgr, Bras. p, I5g* ' 

 Pike with silvery lateral line. 



Esox marginatus. E. pinna dorsali anique oppositis, linea 

 laterali argentea, maxilla inferiori sextuplo longiori. Lin, 

 Gmel.p, 1393. Forsk. Arab, p. 67. 



A SMALL species : body elongated, somewhat 

 transparent, and covered with rather large scales : 

 tail bilobate, and scaled like the body : upper jaw 

 short ; lower six times as long, and rather soft at 

 the tip : general colour brownish above, and whitish 

 beneath. Native of the Indian and American 

 seas. 



