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5. CIRRATUS. 
Pr. roftro cirrato fpinis longioribus : brevioribufque intermediis. 
Tab. 26. fig. 5. and Tab. 27. 
Habitat in Nova Hollandia. 
In hac fpecie rofrum fpinis circiter 20 acutis, modicé incurvis, 
munitum ; brevioribus a 3—6 interjectis—ad latera fubtus utrinque 
cirrus elongatus flexilis. 
- . Of this curious and fingular fifh we have only met with one 
: fpecimen, which was brought from Port Fack/on in New Holland, 
and is in the poffefhon of Thomas Wilfon, Efq. of Gower-flreet, who 
obligingly lent it to me, for the purpofe of defcribing and figur- 
It is a male, and the total length about forty inches: the Jour, 
from the tip of it to the eye, eleven: the /9ges widely different 
from any of the others; they are indeed placed, as ufual, on the 
edge, but are continued on each fide even beyond the eyes, as may 
be feen in the drawing. The longer ones are flender, fharp, fome- 
what bent, and about twenty in number; and between thefe are 
others not half the length of the primal ones, between fome three. 
or four, between others as far as fix; and in general the middle — 
one of thefe fmaller feries is the longeft: befides thefe, a feries of 
minute ones may be perceived beneath, at the very edge. In the 
fnout likewife another figularity occurs :—about the middle of it, on 
each fide, near the edge, arifes a flexible, ligamentous cord, about 
three inches and a half in length, appearing not unlike the beards 
at the mouth of fome of the Gadus or Cod genus, and no doubt as 
pliant in the recent ftate. The colour of the fifh is a pale brown: 
Vor. Il, Oo the 
