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depression between them; vision toward the sides. Round 
the body from head to tail a series of membranous processes, 
flat and lobulated, but of some variety in shape, the longest 
round the head. Skin smooth, loose, and slimy. Strong 
tubercles behind the eyes; the head covered with numerous 
irregular lines, from which proceeds a tenacious slime. Two 
short soft processes, already referred to, above the upper jaw; 
between them a slender upright filament, its interior structure 
bony, and which is joined to the bony structure of the head, 
in some cases by a ring joint, in others a portion of the 
ring is formed of soft substance. This forms the fishing-rod 
and line, its termination expanded, soft, hanging down like a 
bait, and in this example the whole was nine inches long. 
Behind this are five slender processes, obscurely united by a 
membrane, which may be regarded as the first dorsal fin, these 
processes or rays becoming gradually shorter; second dorsal 
and anal opposite each other, the former having twelve rays, 
the latter ten; pectoral fins horizontal, with twenty -four rays, 
joined to the body by a lengthened wrist, which is hid under 
the skin; and the longitudinal direction of the bones of the 
wrist causes this fin to be placed far behind, yet not so far as 
the gill-opening; which is situated behind it, and is so open in 
consequence of the low nature of its membrane and the length 
of the six slender branchial bony rays that by fishermen the 
pair are termed pockets. The ventral fins resemble slender 
paws, with six rays. Tail slightly rounded, with eight rays; 
all the fins thick and fleshy, with lobes or crenations at the 
border. The colour above is of various shades of dark or 
ashy grey, mottled, and in a younger condition prettily and 
regularly striped; white below; extremities of the fins often 
red. 
Doctor Borlase, in his “Natural History of Cornwall,” has 
described a fish, under the name of the Long Angler, which 
he supposed to be a distinct species, but which is now believed 
to have been a. mutilated example of the fish we have described. 
He says it was of a longer form, the head more bony, rough 
and aculeated; with none of the fin -like appendages round 
the head, but there was a series of them on each side of the 
thinner part of the body, beginning under the (second) dorsal 
fin, and reaching to within two inches of the tail. On the 
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