Vulpes^ 
Synodus^ 
f^ucius, 
■ 2 . 
Bdont . ' 
FISHES, abdominal. 47. Efox. 
Dorfal fin in the middle of the backi gill-membranC 3 
‘ rayed. 
Inhabits North America. 
•Dorjl 1^: pe£l. 14 ! vent. 8 : an, 10: caud, 17 rays. 
Dprfal fin in the middle of the back ; glll-membrai'® ? 
fayed. 
Inhabits North America: refembles the laft. 
Dorf. 1 1 ; pect, j a : vent. 8 : an, 6 cand. 8 rays. 
Snout deprelTed ; jaws nearly equal. Cornmn’^^' 
Upper jaw a little ihorter. 
Inhabits mOft lakes of Europe, Lapland and northern 
2) North Arnerica, and is found everian the Ca/pinTt 
fwims and grows very rapidly, 1—8 feet long; is extr«ffj 
voracious and long-livea ; feeds on alraoft any thing 
comes in its way, even its own tribe ; fpawns from 
to April ; body above black, the fides cinereous fpotted^’' 
yellow, beneath white dotted with black ; rarely orange T 
ted with black or green ; fcaics fmall, oblong, hard. ^5 
Head broad, flat ; upper jaui broad, fhorter, under jaw^ ''"Lj 
up a little and is punaured at the end ; pupil blueifhi 
golden; inf he jaws alternately fixed and moveable J 
late with 3 rows of prallel longitiidinal teeth, the mi441® °h 
fmall, the others larger and bent inwards ; /nr with braO'^'’.^ 
rays ; pectoral and ventral reddiih, the reft fpotted '''* 
black ; dorjal and anal brownifti ; tail brown. 
D. 21 : p. 15 ; D. 11 : a. i8 ■. c. 19 rays. 
Each jaw long, fubulatc. SeaP. 
Inhabits the deeps of tjre Ocean, and migrates annually 
the coafts, always preceding the mackarel ; is feldom 
and IS ti — 4 feet long ; body narrow, long, flender, 
black, the fides greenilh-blue coated with oblong thin 
beneath filvery. . . 
Head fmall ; cheeks and gill-covers filvery blueifh-greeP' 
eyes large, round, iris filvery ; jaws rounded, the teeth^^,; 
tually receiving each other ; lateral line commencing 
the gill-cover, nearer and parallel with the belly, and 
at the caudal fin ; /iir fhort ; pedoral and ventral cin^®.,; 
the rays branched ; dorfal and analblueilh, the rays fii»Pj,) 
tail i little forked, edged with blue, the rays fplit at the 
the bones have a fhining green fplendor by night. 
Dorf 16, pect, 13, vent. 7, an, 2t, caud, 23 rays. 
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