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SOLE. 



at present allowed to constitute a distinct species, 

 and will of course be described in its proper division. 



ROSE-COLOURED FLOUNDER. 



Pleuronectes Roseus. P. oculis dextris, corpore roseo. 

 Rose-coloured Flounder, with eyes towards the right. Na~ 

 turalisfs Miscellany, Vol. "J. pi. 238. 



General proportions those of a Flounder: length 

 about nine inches : colour most delicate rose, 

 slightly tinged in some parts with yellowish, and in 

 others with silvery white : lower surface paler, or 

 very nearly white : fins and tail pale yellow-brown : 

 skin apparently destitute of scales, though marked 

 by very minute scale-like reticulations, and void of 

 all asperity either on the side-line or at the origin 

 of the fins. Taken in the Thames, and preserved in 

 the Leverian Museum. 



SOLE. 



Pleuronectes Solea. P. oblongusfuscus, squmnis asperis, maxilla 



superiore longiore. 

 Oblong brown Flounder, with rough scales, and upper jaw 



longer than the lower. 

 Pleuronectes Solea. P. oculis dextris, corpore aspero oblongo, 



maxilla superiore longiore. Lin. Syst. Nat. p. 456\ 

 Buglossus. The Sole. Will, ichth. p. 100. Penn. brit. zool. 3. 



Block, t. 45. 



The Sole is an inhabitant of the Northern, 

 Baltic, Mediterranean, and American seas, and 



