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with red ; and the fins of an orange colour spotted with purple. Ac- 
cording to Bloch the Pike is sometimes found of a fine orange-yellow 
spotted with black, and is then distinguished by the Dutch fishermen 
under the appellation of the King of Pikes. 
In one specimen we counted sixteen rays in the dorsal fin, in the 
pectoral fin ten, ventral seven, anal thirteen, and caudal twenty-three. 
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