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VII. Some Account of the Rana Pifcatrix; hj 
James Parfoiis M. D. F. R. S. 
Read April 17.iT N fome Parts of Italy this Fifh is 
*7+9- ca n ec i R 0 Jp 0i in others Bora\ and 
by the Lombards Zatto. 
Lophius ore cirrofo , Fetrus Artedus. 
b a A /as (bctrov, /3 a A /as. Arijlot. 
Rana Fifcatrix , by the following Authors 5 viz,. 
Bellonius , Rondelletius , Salvianus, Gefnerus, Charle- 
ton, Willoughby , Ray. 
Fifcatrix vel marina. Schonveld . 
— vulgaris. Aldrovand. 
A LT HO’ this Fifh is already defcribed by mod of 
the Natural Hiftorians, yet (everal of its Proper- 
ties appear to have been overlook’d ; and as I am per- 
fuaded many of this Learned Society may not have 
feen it, I laid hold of this Opportunity to lay it be- 
fore them, with fome little Account, and Drawings, 
I believe nearer the Truth than any exhibited already j 
referring the Curious to the general|Hiftory of this 
Animal, as collected by Gefner ; and to Sir George 
Ent’s Account and Ditie&ion of him, as deliver’d by 
Dr. Charleton , in his Ex ere it at tones de Dijferentiis 
et Nominibus Animalium } whofe Figure of him is 
copied by Willoughby with moft of the Dihertation, 
and which, if 1 miftake not, was taken from Salvi- 
anus by Dr. Charleton , for the better llluftration of 
Sir Georges Difiertation. 
This Animal is four Feet three Inches long, and 
about nineteen Inches from Side to Side in the wideft 
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