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cole’s char. 
a pair of stouter teeth in front of the palate, where in one 
example there were three teeth; none on the vomer- two row! 
the' under 
le undci jaw. ihe body deepest oppo.site the orinin of the 
d»s 1 li,., and ll,„ doprh in greatest in ,he „.le, alfhl °i' ,L 
female was hlled with enlarged roe, the grains of which were 
almost as large as those of a Salmon. Lateral line straio-hf 
scales on the body small. Dorsal fin large, behind the centre 
of giavity, with thirteen rays; anal wide with twplv 
in bch llteso fins U,o last rap, spring fr " 011 I , ’’7 
fin .nrall. PocteraU large, poiare!,. i„° leng^ 
fiom the snout to the border of the RilI-covpr.s . 
ventrals large, the rays ten; tail wide forhed w'th'^*^° 
rays. _ Colour on the h^d and back tiL wiltalt 
BO tening off at the sides; deep reddish o ant a 1 be ^ 
g.ll-covcrs bright, with a tint of blue. Pectorals t 
...» fi..s linged „i,l. orange-, he last-nanred (ins in’ one ei.n'ple 
noth a ,te border in front, .dip„.e fi„ reddish Tnee 
and dorsal fin dark. In the male thp i ° 
in the female. 
Comparing the colours of these examples with those of the 
lorgoch, a. g„e„ by Donovan, the 1...', spotted ,,"h .^d on 
back and sides, and with white on the red belly and all 
tlm fins red except the dorsal, and even that partly so- the 
difference between these fishes, where colour is^ nf ^ i 
importance, is easily discerned; added to which he ' 
fit™ TfrxtS 
he says further, that the pectoral is smairwh-r 
the length of this fin is only a little less than^f “ 
to the border of the gill-cover. Comn • i - i 
the Melvyn Char of the length of example of 
latter is of a stouter form, the head m ^ 
larger, fins larger, and the’ al so I'f IT- 
former the pectoral fin runs onlv a ivfl / , ® 
the root of the ventrals, and the ori<.in o^f 
tbe point of its termination, in the 
