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LONG FLOUNDEE. 
Platessa tlongata, yiEKELi; Br. Fishes, vol. ii, p. 318. 
Pkuronectes elonga(us, Gdnthbe; Cat. Br. M., vol. iv, p. 45i. 
This is also regarded as amongst the rarer examples of 
British fishes; and so rare is it that hitherto two specimens 
only have been on record, one of which was furnished to 
Mr. Yarrell from Bridgewater Bay, in Devonshire, by Mr. 
Baker, at which place also the other was afterwards obtained. 
And even the example which was in Mr. Yarr ell’s possession 
has since been so far lost sight of, that it was not handed 
over to the British Museum when the collections of that 
gentleman came into the possession of that public institution. 
It is with much pleasure, therefore, that I find myself in 
possession of two examples, for which I am indebted to the 
kindness of Edmund T. Higgins, Esq[., who procured them 
from Weston, in Somersetshire; and as this lies within the 
same district as Bridgewater, we may suftpose that the range 
of this fish is exceedingly limited, and that, perhaps, even 
there its haunts are beyond the tracks of ordinary fishing. 
Our figure is from one of these examples, which, however, 
had lost its proper colour; but we choose to represent it in 
the condition in which we find it, rather than risk the danger 
of tinging it of a doubtful colour from description. 
The example described was seven inches and three fourths 
in length, of which the body (exclusive of the tail) measured 
six inches and one eighth; breadth of the body one inch and 
six eighths; head short, measuring from the snout to the 
border of the gill-covers one inch and a fourth; under jaw 
protruded; gape moderately large; angle of the mouth 
depressed. Eyes large, the lowermost a little advanced, a 
prominent ridge between them. Body thin, shaped much like 
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