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ARGENTINE. 
. have represented; the last-named author having overlooked the 
adipose fin of his Argentina, and the former, probably misled 
by the name, by having guessed it to be a fish to which 
Willoughby’s description will not apply. The figure given by 
Pennant was obtained from a different example from his first 
notice, but the name which he originally applied to it has 
been suffered to remain. 
Mr. Yarrell was at first content to copy Pennant’s figure, 
but in his second edition he has added others, in which the 
extent of the fins at least, and especially the anal, do not 
shew exact similarity; and as the likeness which I produce, 
although with some imperfection, and Mr. Edward’s description, 
presently to be referred to, are not in all respects similar to 
either of them, the doubt still remains whether more than 
one species may not have been obtained in Britain. But 
leaving this to be decided by future inquiry, it further 
appears that this fish is far from being so scarce as was 
formerly supposed, at least within its own particular range. 
Low mentions it as found in Orkney, Mr. Peach obtained 
it at Wick, and Mr. T. Edward at Banff. At Bcdcar forty 
examples were obtained in the months of January and March, 
and others since. It has been obtained in Ireland, and five 
examples were procured by Mr. E. T. Higgins at Weston, on 
the north coast of Somersetshire, where they were taken in 
nets set for shrimps; and it is from one of these our figure 
and description have been taken. The example was, indeed, 
somewhat injured, and in consequence it is not offered as 
altogether a perfect representation; but it is judged better to 
give a resemblance of an original specimen than a mere copy, 
the more especially as our example was perfect in those 
particulars, from imperfection in which, as regards others, the 
principal doubts have sprung; to which we add that the highest 
amount of accuracy in description will be secured, by bringing 
together our description and those of Dr. W. B. Clarke in 
the “Magazine of Natural History,” already referred to, and 
another by that indefatigable inquirer Mr. Thomas Edward, of 
Banff, as contained in the “Zoologist” for 1863. 
This species appears to be limited to the northern portion of 
the Atlantic, and no instance is recorded of its having been 
seen on the shores of Devonshire and Cornwall, where we may 
