VIPER WEEVER. 
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gill-cover Is not less formidable, when an allowance is made 
for the smaller size of the fish. Ihe lines exist which cor- 
respond with those which adorn the body of the Greater 
Weever, but they are more faintly marked, and not so numerous. 
The fins are much alike, except that the first dorsal seems 
shorter, and the tail is not concave, but a little rounded. The 
colour is mottled, on a ground of yellowish brown, with some 
cross bars on the head and beginning of the back. 
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