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SOUTHERN CHIMiERA. 



or filament at the end of the tail is dried and used 

 for the purpose of a pipe-cleaner. 



From the Linnaean title of this fish, both generic 

 and specific, we might be led to imagine it one of 

 the most deformed and monstrous of all the in- 

 habitants of the deep : its appearance however, on 

 the whole, is rather grotesque than formidable, 

 and its colours highly elegant. I have sometimes 

 thought it not improbable that the Bishop-Fish, de- 

 scribed and figured in the works of Rondeletius^ 

 may have taken its rise from distorted preparations 

 of the upper part of this animal, with the addition^ 

 of some other articles to form the lower part. 



SOUTHERN GHIMiERA. 



Chimadra Australis. C. subargentea, rostro subtus labro htftem 

 Icevi. 



Subargenteous Chimaera^ with the snout produced beneath into 

 an inflected lip. 



Chimaera Callorhynchus. C. rostro subtus labra injiexo ksvk 



Lin, St/st. Nat. 

 Callorynchos. Gronov. mus. 59. t. 4. 

 Elephant-Fish. Cook, it, I. p. 18. 



Size nearly similar to that of the preceding 

 species, but with the front rather sloping down- 

 wards, and the upper lip extended into a lengthened 

 cartilaginous flap or appendage, bending down- 

 wards in a reversed direction beneath : mouth as ii% 

 the former fish : eyes large : front marked by un- 

 dulating lines, but with less numerous pores : first 

 dorsal fin like that of the C. boreulis ; second re» 



