POLYNEME. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Head compressed, having a very obtuse prominent snout, 
and a number of slender filaments under the jaw. 
Gill membrane with an unequal number of rays. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Polynemus niloticus. P. argenteus, digitis utrinque quinque 
mediocribus, naso subrubente. 
Silvery, with five moderately long 
thoracic filaments on each side, and 
reddish snout. 
Silvery Polyneme. . Shaw Gen. Zool. 5. p. 151 . Binny. 
Bruce's Travels , 8vo ed. v. Jr. p. 305. 
Mr. Bruce met with this fish at Achmim, the an- 
tient Panopolis. He extols its flavour, and says 
that it equals any of the fish inhabiting the rivers 
running either into the Mediterranean or the ocean. 
The specimen which Mr. Bruce has figured, he in- 
forms us, weighed thirty-two pounds ; but he was 
assured by the fishermen that they are often taken 
