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side, and marked by spots somewhat resembling in 

 shape those on the tail of a peacock, being white 

 with brown centres : probably a native of the 

 Indian seas. 



This species (if such it be) together with the 

 two preceding, the lineated, the bilineated, and the 

 ornamented Sole, is unnecessarily placed by Cepede 

 in a distinct genus, under the title of Achirus, from 

 the circumstance of wanting the pectoral fins. 



LINEATED FLOUNDER. 



Pleuronectes Lineatus. P. corpore fusco } scabro, nigro trans* 



versim fasciato, pinnis pectoralibus nullis. 

 Brown, rough Flounder, with transverse black lines, and 



without pectoral fins. 

 Pleuronectes lineatus. P. oculis sinistris, corpore scabro nigro 



fasciato, pinnis pectoralibus nullis. Lin. Syst. Nat. p. 458. 

 Passer lineis transversis. Sloane Jam. 2. p. 77* 



Form that of a Turbot : length seven or eight 

 inches: body covered with small rough scales, and 

 of a deep brown above, marked by seven or eight 

 transverse black streaks : the rays of all the fins 

 and tail roughened by small shagreen-like tubercles : 

 under part of the body white, marked with round, 

 blackish spots. Native of the American seas. 



