PLATE LI. 
Aat tlie fish described by Bloch under the specific name of Passer, 
on no account to be confounded with our Wliifi". 
In the conclusion of these remarks, it will not be deemed improper 
^0 draw a slight comparison between the English Whiff and the Pleu- 
J'onectes punctatus, in order to point out the characters of both with 
due precision. The form of our fish is oblong, the body being much 
*^ore elongated than that of P. punctatus. The singular rotundity 
nf appearance that prevails in the latter fish, is Increased by the cur- 
vature of the dorsal and anal fin near the posterior extremity, where 
dtey.are wider than in any other part, becoming gradually narrower 
as they proceed towards the head; on the contrary, in the Whiff, 
fins are widest across the middle, and slope gradually in breadth 
towards the head and tail : the mouth is full of large teeth in P. 
Ptutetatus : in our fish the mouth is large, and furnished only with 
®tnall teeth. The body and fins are marked alike with large black 
®Pots, having the intermediate spaces interspersed with red spots of a 
^tnaller size in P. punctatus : our fish, though marked with spots, have 
them neither so numerous, nor of such a black colour, and there is not 
the least trace of the scarlet specklings and spots that appear profusely 
Scattered over the surface of the other. Duhamel’s figure is not so 
darkly spotted as that of Bloch, but the obtuse rotundity of outline by 
^hich this species is distinguished from our Whiff, is as apparent in 
the figure of Duharoel as in that of Bloch. 
The dorsal fin in our Whiff contains eighty-five rays : pectoral 
*'teen ; ventral five : anal sixty-one : and tail nineteen. 
