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figure and description have been talcon. In length the example 
described was six inches and a fourth, which is about the 
usual dimensions; depth in front of the dorsal fin one inch 
and five eighths, the outline rising from the front to the first 
ray of that fin. The body compressed, covered with scales 
of moderate size, not easily lost; under jaw projecting; 
mystache broad, slightly bent, reaching half way to the eye; 
gape very moveable. Eye large and prominent. Teeth 
none in the jaws, minute on the tongue. Dorsal fin opposite 
the ventrals, with eleven rays, as has also the anal, the two 
last from one root. Pectorals free of the gill-covers, reaching 
a little more than half way to the ventrals, with fourteen 
lays; in the ventrals ten rays; adipose fin opposite the 
termination of the anal, and consequently not far from the 
tail. Tail broadly forked, with twenty rays. Colour of the 
back brown, the sides tinged with yellow; above the hindmost 
part of the eye golden; faint lines of yellow along the sides, 
but over the whole and on the cheeks a brilliant white. Mr. 
Yarrell says that the dorsal fin and upper portion of the sides 
were a fine green, which may have vanished from my examples; 
pectoral and ventral fins yellow. There are about sixty-eight 
pores along the lateral line. The figure of this fish as given 
by Mr. Yarrell, as compared with three examples, is too 
slender 
