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towards the north; for while the last-named fish is often seen 
in our waters, and even visits the German Ocean, the Germon 
has only on two or three occasions been recorded as British. 
Twice it has been taken in the Mount’s Bay, in Cornwall, of 
'which an account is given in the Report of the Natural History 
Society of Penzance, as referred to above; and from one of 
these our figure and description are taken. 
A third example w'as obtained at Portland in the middle of 
March, 1861, and came into the possession of William Thompson, 
Esq., of Weymouth; to whom I owe the information of its 
capture, and who presented it to the British Museum. Its 
length was thirty-three inches, and the extreme girth twenty- 
two inches and a quarter; extent of the pectoral fin eleven 
inches and a half. The specimen from which we obtain our 
figure and description was much less than this — the length 
being eighteen inches, and the depth where greatest five inches. 
The snout sharp, under jaw longest, gape small; teeth in a 
single row, small, sharp, and incurved. Eye large, placed over 
the angle of the mouth; diverging thread-like branching lines 
passing from it backward. Gill-covers in well-marked sections. 
A corset begins behind the gill-covers, and encircling the origin 
of the pectoral fin, forms for it a depression into which it falls. 
From thence this corset rises to the back, and extends to the 
second dorsal fin. Lateral line crooked posteriorly, ihe fiist 
dorsal fin rises behind the root of the pectoral, and extends 
to within a short distance of the second dorsal; the first four 
I'ays longest, fourteen in all, and spinous. Second dorsal hook- 
shaped, fifteen soft rays; anal also hook-shaped, thirteen rays; 
this fin behind the second dorsal. Pectorals with thiity-seven 
rays, so long as to reach to the hinder border of the second 
dorsal. The two ventral fins close together, on a scale round 
which is a depression, and between them are four false rays, 
the first ray of this fin spinous, five others. Tail deeply con- 
cave. Pinlets eight above and seven below. This example 
shewed extraordinary strength when caught with a line. 
