SMEAR DAB. 
lemon oab. lemon sole. 
aUEEN. smooth dab. 
Jago; lu Bay’s KSyriopsig Piscium; but by 
tbis name Jago only meant to say that 
tins IS allied to the Brill, which fish is 
called Kitt, or Kite, in Oomwall. 
Lacepede. ? 
Pi-EMING; British Animals, p. 198. 
JENYjfs; Manual, p. 467, 
Yareell; British Pishes, vol. ii, p 309 
Donovan; pi. 42, but the head not 'well 
expressed. 
Gunihek; Cat. Br. Maseum, vol. iv, p. 447. 
This fish appears to have much of the habits of the Dab 
and IS equally common round the British Islands, except towards 
the more northern paits. I learn, however, from Mr. Iverach 
of Kirkwall, that he has known it taken in Orkney in July- 
but it is less frequently caught with a hook; a circumstance 
little to he wondered at when we examine its mouth, which 
is so small that in the lesser examples it seems difficult to 
magine how any but a minute object can be admitted into 
It. It is frequently caught with the trawl, and has a good 
repute for the table. The ground it frequents is for the most 
part stony; and h goes far to the north, as well as through 
the Baltic. It is prepared for spawning early in Fehruary, 
and appears to be among the most prolific of flatfishes; the 
lobes of roe being large, and extending back from the small 
abdominal cavity, compressed but wide, almost to the tail. 
The stomach and bowels are of slight texture, but the latter 
are large, and it is probable that the usual food is either 
vegetable or of the smaller sea Insects, (Entromostrmu.) 
A Kitt, 
Pleuronecte Kmandelle, 
Platessa miarocepliahis, 
" It 
ti 
Pleuronectes mierocephalus. 
