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CHILI PIKE. 



Esox Chilensis. E. supra aureus, suhtus argenteus, squamis 

 quadratis osseis, maxillis cequalibus, linea later ali coerulea. 



Gold-coloured Pike, silvery beneath, with square bony scales, 

 equal jaws, and blue lateral line. 



Esox Chilensis. E, maxillis cequalibus, linea laterali coerulea. 

 Lin. Gmel. p. 1392. Molina Chilip, 196. 



Allied to the preceding kinds, but of a different 

 colour, being described by Molina, who seems to 

 have been its first scientific observer, as of a golden 

 cast above, and silvery beneath : the body is cylin- 

 dric, covered with square and bony, but easily de- 

 ciduous scales : the head large and flattened : the 

 eyes large, orbicular, and lateral : the gape mode- 

 rate the teeth small, fixed, and close-set : the 

 tongue entire, and the palate smooth: the branchial 

 aperture lunated : the gill-covers composed of two 

 plates : the lateral line blue, and the fins short and 

 radiated. Native of the seas about Chili, where it 

 is much esteemed for the table, having a white, 

 flaky, semi-transparent, and delicious flesh : length 

 from two to three feet. 



