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APPENDIX. 
To the number of edible fishes enumerated here, I feel bound to add 
one, which I n0ver saw, but which I introduce on the incontestable 
authority of Dr. A. Smith, who has given the following description of 
it, in the first volume of the South African Quarterly Journal, (1830) 
a publication full of interesting and useful information respecting the 
Cape Colony. 
45. Serrantjs Cuvierii. A. Smith. (Bock Cod.) Colour 
of back and sides brownish-yellow with blotches, streaks of ir- 
regular bands of dusky greenish-black ; lower part of sides and 
belly reddish-yellow, with slight mixture of brown. Corsal fins 
deep dusky-brown, with the extremities of the spinous rays 
reddish ; ventral fins towards apices brown, towards bases yel- 
low; bases of pectoral fins bluish- white, finely spotted with 
orange; rest reddish-brown; tail even, or only very slightly 
rounded, with the hinder edge narrowly marginated with white. 
Eyes orange. 
A full-grown specimen of this fish measures about two and a half 
feet ; it inhabits the ocean along the East coast of Africa, particularly 
about Algoa Bay, where it is frequently caught, and highly esteemed 
as an article of food. 
