P.LATE XCIV. 
deep brown, and the rest of a light colour are frequent. Others of ^ 
more uniform appearance, have the whole of the superior surface oli- 
vaceous brown, and the lower white. The variety called by th® 
fishermen the Sea Flounder, is nearly as dark on the lower surface aS 
■above, and is more variegated with livid and yellow, than in the fresh 
wafer Flounders. This marine kind instead of being being dark i® 
sometimes pale on both surfaces, the pervading colour partaking 
either of a yellowish, or rosy hue. — ^The specimen selected for deli- 
neation, is one of that singularly beautiful variety of fresh watet 
Flounders which is often taken in the Thames, the ground colour 
which varies from whitish to deep rose colour, and is elegantly mot- 
tled, or otherwise variegated with brown : the length of this fish was 
six inches and a lialf. A Flounder rather exceeding this in size, an*^ 
perfectly of a rose colour was taken a few years ago in the riv^t 
Thames, and preserved in the lateLeverian Museum. This fish wa* 
first described by Dr. Shaw, in the Naturalist’s Miscellany, as a ne''^ 
species under the name of Pleuronectes roseus, rose coloured FlouO' 
der; and is again repeated in the General Zoology of that author* ■ 
* This fish is described specifically by Dr. Shaw, as the “ Pleuronectet rose «• 
cqluiircii Flounder, witli the eyes towards the right.” — “ General proportions, those of * 
Flounder : length about nine inches : colour most delicate rose, slightly tinged in ‘00^‘ 
parts with yellowish, and in other with silvery white : lower surface paler, or very 
white : fins and tall pale yellow-brown : skin apparently destitute of scales, though mart®'* 
by vdry minute, scale-like reticulations, and void of all asperity, cither on tlie side I*"®’ 
at the origin of the tins.” Shaw’s Nut. Mk. v. 7. pi. 238. — Gen. Zool, v. 4. p. t. 
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'l^he individual specimen thus described, being at this time before us, we are enal'l*^** 
to advert to a few circumstances, which attentively considered, will suSiciently 
monstratc that the supposed species Pleurojiectes roseus, is only a variety of the coinW°® 
Flounder. — The description corresponds in most particulars with the fish in questi°‘‘' 
but not entirely, and b one e.sseutial pobt, there is an evident oversight which «>*S**'^ 
