On Perrine's generalized Markoff equation.
We use the so-called second 2-descent method to find several series of non-congruent numbers. We consider three different 2-isogenies of the congruent elliptic curves and their duals, and find a necessary condition to estimate the size of the images of the 2-Selmer groups in the Selmer groups of the isogeny.
Assertions on the congruence f(x) + g(y) + c ≡ 0 (mod xy) made without proof by Mordell in his paper in Acta Math. 88 (1952) are either proved or disproved.