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' She gajS' 
ft Gar *. 
This fifh is commonly known by tbe name of the Tea* 
needle : it makes its appearance in fummer, a little be^ 
fore the mackrel, a filh it refembles in take as well as in 
the fpurious fins near the tail. It is a long flender filh, 
flattened a little towards the belly, and quadrangular as 
it approaches the tail. The head is flat, proje&ing for- 
ward into a very long fharp fnout, which is characleridic 
of this fpecies. The fides a..d belly are of a bright fil- 
very colour ; the back is green, marked along the mid- 
dle with a dark purple line ; the fides are alfo each 
diftinguiihed by a line running from the gills to the 
tail. The lower jaw proje&s a great way beyond the 
upper, and terminates in a certain foft fubftance : on 
both fides it is provided with teeth, like the common 
pike ; and the upper jaw is moveable as in the crocodile; 
a circumftance from which the gar is diftinguifhed from 
all other fifties, as well as by the fuperior richnefs and 
vivacity of its colours while in the water. 
To this genus is commonly referred the faury, a filh 
not enumerated by Linnaus , but defcribed by Rondeletius 
as an inhabitant of the Mediterranean f. Above and be- 
low the tail there are a number of fpurious fins, refem- 
bling 
* Acus vulgaris, Aldravand. ECox Beloae, Lin. Syft. 
t Pifces, 233. 3 
