POWER. 
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occasionally taken with a line from a pier or rock in harbours. 
Their food is the smaller crustacean animals, and they swallow 
a bait freely. 
The common length of the Power is from six to eight inches. 
Head and body compressed, deep, but the latter less so in 
proportion than the Bib, the deepest part at the vent, opposite 
the termination of the first dorsal fin. In front of the eye 
the head is short, the profile rounded from the upper jaw. 
Eye large, a row of pores between the eye and upper maxillary 
tone; jaws about equal, with teeth in both, and in the palate; 
a barb at the lower jaw. Body clothed with fine scales, which 
hang so loosely that the fish can scarcely be touched without 
removing them. The lateral line begins high, and bends down 
beyond the end of the pectoral fin, from thence straight. Vent 
nearer the tail than in the Bib, opposite the termination of 
the first dorsal. The first dorsal also begins further distant 
from the head; the pectoral shorter; ventrals also shorter, not 
reaching half way to the vent; tail slightly incurved. Colour 
of the upper parts dusky or yellowish brown, sides lighter, 
belly white. 
VOL. lit. 
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