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mention has been made of the humeral spine, the number of 
its fin rays, (dorsal twelve and anal eleven,) and the absence 
of the true L. Budegassa in the northern seas, prove its 
identity with L. piscatoriusd’ 
A. remarkable portion of this subject is the rarity of this 
young condition, as compared with the commonness of the 
full-grown fish, and its prolific character. ilr. Thompson 
weighed the roe in an Angler which measured four feet and 
a half in length, and found the bulk enclosed in the mem- 
brane to amount to one pound and thirteen ounces; fiom 
which, with due allowance for the superfiuous materials he 
calculated the number of grains to amount to almost a million 
and a half. 
This fish is not thought of for the table with us; but 
Jonston quotes an unknown author, Alexandrides, for the fact 
that it was produced at a feast given by Cotys, King of 
Thrace; and, according to Antiphonis the belly was particularly 
esteemed. Willoughby says that when boiled the flesh is white, 
and in taste is like a frog; to which we may add that, 
according to Risso, a fish which he calls Genelli, and which 
he considers a variety of the Angler, is a delicious dish, as 
has also been reported by a private individual of our own 
Angler. 
A large example of this species may measure between five 
and six feet in length, but the specimen described was three 
feet, and its breadth, across the widest expansion of the pec- 
toral fins, about twenty-two inches. The head broad and 
rounded, forming a large proportion of the hulk; the body 
tapering behind the pectoral fins, and more compressed towards 
the tail. Head studded with bony tubercles, six in number, 
with a depression from the upper jaw upward between the 
rows, in which the processes of the maxillary bone are received. 
The under jaw projects, and is capable of great protrusion. 
Breadth of the mouth in this example ten inches, with two 
or three rows of long sharp teeth, the innermost row generally 
the stoutest and longest, especially in the lower jaw, and each 
tooth through much of its length encased in a separate 
membranous covering; in front of the palate also are rows of 
strong teeth, and the same in the floor of the mouth in the 
place of a tongue. Eyes high on the head, separate, with a 
