They are distinguished from the other fishes by having two dorsal fins, of which the hindmost is fleshy and without rays.

The dorsal spines are not much elongated, and there is no distinct hump; the premaxillae are long enough to reach the nasals.

] A, 12th dorsal vertebra; B, diaphragm; C, receptaculum chyli; D, small intestines ]

The horns are nearly circular in section and almost smooth; usually they curve outward, then upward and often inward at the tip; the premaxillaries are long and generally reach to the nasals, and the anterior dorsal vertebrae are without sharply elongated spines, so that the line of the back is nearly straight.

This Smaris has fewer dorsal rays than any species described in the Histoire des Poissons, and a shorter body than the Mediterranean vulgaris.

A, last phalanx of the fingers; B, true skin on the dorsal surface of the finger; C, epidermis; D, true skin; E, bed of the nail; F, superficial layer of the nail; H, true skin of the pulp of the finger.

The next twelve are the dorsal vertebræ; these belong to the back and support the ribs.

In the dorsal region they are plainly seen and felt in thin persons.

The dorsal ridge of the Hindu Kush has here a mean elevation of some 16,000 feet, and this great mountain of Tirach Mir stands on a southward spur from the main range from which it towers up thus 9,000 feet above the latter.

Guided by his yellowish eyes fixed on top, he waves his pointed little beard, cut like leaves, and a pair of dorsal appendages like feathers.

The dorsal artery of the foot can be felt beating on a line from the middle of the ankle to the interval between the first and second metatarsal bones.

This shell is pale yellowish, with irregular, large, distinct, concentric ridges, and distinctly radiated striae; the umbones smooth, polished, orange-yellow; the lozenge lanceolate, purple; the inside golden-yellow; the anterior and posterior dorsal margins purple.

The first dorsal exclusive of its last ray is of the same hue; a black band descends from it, and two from the second dorsal, which meet in a stripe that extends from the eye to the tail, the whole bearing some resemblance to the traces of a coach-horse.

Every one knew the import of Polonsky's dorsal tattooings, that Pastor had a case of gin in his house, and that the governor, after a bottle or two of champagne, had squeezed so tightly the waist of an English lady with whom he waltzed that she had cried out in pain.

Then, on an island in the Hillsborough, two birds stood in the dead tops of low shrubby trees, fully exposed in the most favorable of lights, their long dorsal trains drooping behind them and swaying gently in the wind.

Nevertheless, I rested my hand a moment upon his head, and then glided it in a semi-professional manner along the line of dorsal elevation, until I came to a deep depression in his backbone, which corresponded exactly with the convexity of the bottle.

Afterwards, long afterwards, would appear a white and radiant countenance, a face like a full moon, and while her smile like a night star was greeting the little Ulysses, the dorsal complement of her body kept on coming inforty carnal years, fresh, exuberant, tremendous.

The body shields of the head pass gradually into the dorsal plates.