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arg the longest, reaching but a trifib beyond the* adjoining,
and ê&j&an in «succession, the -dd&rçnceiilh length increasing
progressively, but very gradually at first, spd, m oB ^ n d ^ o ^ sia is
they Jare distant from the centre, -there being nearly 'a n ip e h
difference between the third and secftid, and full that between the
aeeond and- the outer, whieh ^fe only six. inches long, while the
to d d le is ten. AIT the twenty are narrow, itapering* acute,, and
f&lcitorm, turning inward. Those toward ih e middle are dess
cuiwed; hut moré conspicuously. acifminate and narrow for nearly
two inehcs,- all but the middle ones being slightly square at their
narrow ti]ü.
. Thoiigh we have reason to believé that the specimen described
and«figured is a femarç, yet from the broad patch upon the ibelly,
nn$|other marks unnecessary to be specified, we should;hot be
siarprisel at its beSng a j^Shng male just beginning to'change. In
that case,* and’ Opposing him to havé attained his full growth,
thj^a^peoies would prove t« be inferior in siiae to; the (lock of
the Woods, as its male would only be equal to the (female of
the latter;
EN U OF VOL. III.