BRAIZE OR BECKER. 



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line of the curve of the back ; the scales on the body are 

 large, and finely ciliated on the free margin. Mr. Holds- 

 worth says, the colours of this fish when taken from the water 

 are very beautiful : above the lateral line it is of a bluish 

 silver colour, below the line bright silver, with the belly and 

 lower fins tinged with vermilion ; dorsal and caudal fin rose 

 red ; the irides are golden yellow, the space between the eyes 

 reddish brown, with a spot of the same colour over the com- 

 mencement of the lateral line, and under the base of the pec- 

 toral fin, but these spots not always very obvious. The 

 number of fin-rays are, 



D. 12 + 10 : P. 15 : V. 1 + 5 : A. 3 + 9 : C. 17. 



