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FISHES. MALACOPTERYGIOUS. Belone 
Gen. XXVI. ESOX. Pike. — Snout oblong, rounded, de- 
pressed. The intermaxillaries, vomer, and palate-bones, 
armed with teeth. 
^ 55. E. Lucius. Common Pike. — Body olive above, with 
yellow spots ; beneath white, with black spots. 
Lucius, Merr. Pin. 190. Sihb. Scot. 25. Will. Ich. 236 — E. Lucius, 
Limt. Syst. i. 516. Penn. Brit. Zool. iii. 320.— Pickerel, Sul. ; Sy 
Ged. ; Wy Penhwyad ; G, Geat-iasg — In lakes and pools. Common. 
This fish grows to a great size. Pennant states, that the largest he ever 
heard of in England weighed 35 pounds. Dr Grierson mentions one taken in 
Loch Ken in Galloway, which weighed 61 pounds (Thomson’s Annals of Phi- 
losophy, vol. iii. p. 428). Body nearly of equal thickness, suddenly decreas- 
ing behind the dorsal and anal fins. D. 21, P. 15, v. 2. A. 18. Exceedingly 
voracious. I have found their own fry, an inch and a half long, in their sto- 
mach, in the month of July. They spawn in February or March. Accord- 
ing to the observations of the Reverend Revett Sheppard, a migration of 
pikes ‘‘ takes place yearly in spring, in the Cam, up which river they come 
in great shoals, doubtless from the fens in the neighbourhood of Ely, where 
they are bred.” — Linn. Trans, xiv. 587* There is abundant evidence that the 
pike is indigenous, though considered by some as having been introduced into 
England in the reign of Henry VIII. in 1537- 
Gen. XXVII. BELONE. Gar.— Snout produced. Teeth 
confined to the intermaxillaries. Scales on each side of the 
belly carinated. 
56. J5. vulgaris. Common Gar. — Body green above, white 
below. 
Acus vulgaris. Will. Ich. 231. — Esox Belone, Linn. Syst. i. 517* — Gar 
Pike, Penn. Brit. Zool. iii. 324. Don. Brit. Fishes, tab. 64. — On va- 
rious parts of the coast. 
Length from 12 to 18 inches. Body nearly cylindrical. The belly flat. Jaws 
slender, armed with fine teeth ; rhe lower jaw longest. D. 17, P* 13, v. 7, 
A. 19, C. 23. Leave the deep water in spring, to spawn near the shore. 
Bones become green by boiling. The fish to which Mr Couch refers as pro- 
bably the Esox Braziliensis of Lmwe, seems to be the young of this species. — 
Linn. Trans, vol. xiv. p. 85. 
Gen. XXVIll. SCOMBERESOX. Saury— Teeth con- 
fined to the intermaxillaries. Belly bicarinated. 
57. S. Saurus. Saury. — Jaws subulate, waved, subrecurved ; 
the lower jaw longest. 
Skipper, Will. Ich. 232. Rayy Syn. Ich. 165. Borl. Corn. 271.— Saury, 
Penn. Brit. Zpol. iii. 325. Racketty Linn. Trans, vii. p. 60. Don. 
Brit. Fishes, tab. cxvi — Sy Gowdnook, Egyptian Herring — On the 
coast, not rare. 
Length from 12 to 18 inches. Body slender; back changeable green; 
belly silvery. Scales small. Tail greatly forked. Finlets six above and six 
