. The game birds and wild fowl of Sweden and Norway; with an account of the seals and salt-water fishes of those countries .. . ticable, owing to there being, so far as I am aware, noNatural History of Norway published to which reference might be lieu of the Norwegian names, I have in many instances given them inDanish, by which, although the written language of Norway, they may not,however, be populai-ly known in that country. 460 THE BERYX BOREAilS. in the Scandinavian waters much exceed fourteen inchesin length, they attain at times in other seas a lengthof three feet, and a weiglit
. The game birds and wild fowl of Sweden and Norway; with an account of the seals and salt-water fishes of those countries .. . ticable, owing to there being, so far as I am aware, noNatural History of Norway published to which reference might be lieu of the Norwegian names, I have in many instances given them inDanish, by which, although the written language of Norway, they may not,however, be populai-ly known in that country. 460 THE BERYX BOREAilS. in the Scandinavian waters much exceed fourteen inchesin length, they attain at times in other seas a lengthof three feet, and a weiglit of twenty pounds. The PolijpnoH cernium, Cuv. & Val., which belongsto the Mediterranean and the Atlantic, has only in oneinstance been captured off the coast of Norway, near Eergen(lat. 00^°), and at a depth of one hundred fathoms. Far-ther to the north it has not been identified. Though theindividual in question only measured twenty-one inches,this fisli is said to reach five or six feet in length, and aweight of one hundred pounds. By all accounts it is veryvoracious. Its flesh is described as white and BERYX BOEEALIS. The Beryx borealis, von Diiben & Koren (in KongligaVetenskajis-Akademiens Handlingar, i. e. Transactionsof the Royal [Swedish] ilcademy of Sciences, 1844., p. 33,tab. ii., figs. 1, 2, from whence the accompanying illus-tration is taken.) A specimen of this fish, reported to bethe only one known, was captured in lSo9 on the THE GBEAT WKEVEK. 461 Norwet^ian coast near Bergen, in the museum of whichtown it is now preserved. Tlie colour of both body andfins, when first taken out of the water, was bright red,and the sides and belly were very beautifully tinged likesilver. The head was armed with six spines. Lengthtwelve inches, and depth four inches and a half. Dr. Glinther, our celebrated ichthyologist, who haskindly examined my drawing, is of opinion, I shouldremark, that this fish is a stray specimen of Beryx deca-dactyhts, of Madeira. The Great Wee
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