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he informs us, after Gmelin, that it inhabits North America and 
Asia ; and further observes, that it is rarely found on the Sussex 
coast. Berkenhout, in his “ Outlines of Natural History,” describes 
it previously as a British fish, on the authority, as it appears, of a 
single specimen, that was cast ashore upon the coast of Sussex; but 
•whether Dr. Turton is indebted for his information to this writer or 
not we cannot presume to determine ; the same specimen is most 
probably alluded to by both. — That a solitary individual at least of l 
this species has been observed on the Sussex coast appears very 
certain, and having been recorded among the fishes of this country, 
we are unwilling to pass over such an interesting fish in silence. 
Should the authority upon which we have introduced it into the 
British Ichthyology be considered insufficient, it will be at leaf! re- 
membered that the ingenious Mr. Pennant has ventured on the evi- 
dence of a less positive circumstance to insert the Sword fish, Xiphias 
Gladius, in his Zoology, as a native of the British seas : the head 
and pectoral fins of an individual of that species being discovered 
some years ago on the sandy shores of Laugharn, in Caernrarthenshire, 
induced him to admit it as such, and it must be allowed that the 
Esox Osseus has an equal claim to our consideration as a British fifb. 
Our figure of this curious fish is taken from a specimen of moderate 
size ; the length from the tip of the jaws to the extremity of the tail 
not exceeding two feet. The form is elegant and very singular, 
slender in the girth, and somewhat roundish. The colour of the 
back pale olivaceous or greenish, becoming whiter on the sides, the 
belly rather more dusky than the sides, and the fins brownish. The 
upper jaw is rather advanced beyond the lower, a circumstance not 
noticed by Lister, who describes the fish, and erroneously remarks 
that both the jaws arc of an equal length. The superior length of 
the upper jaw Linnaeus observes as one of the principal characters of 
