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HAIRTAIL. 
pointed, two inches and three eighths long. The back rises 
from the head to the origin of the dorsal fin; and this fin 
begins above the border of the anterior gill-cover. The colour 
from the point of the jaws, along the back, brovra; a lighter 
brown on the hinder portion of the body; gill-covers and 
sides inclined to blue; margin of the body, to the vent, pink; 
pectoral fin tinted with blue; dorsal with a tinge of reddish 
brown; iris yellow. 
