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PERCID.E. 



ACANTHOPTERYGII. 



PERCIDJE. 





PLAIN RED MULLET. 



Mullus barbatus, LINNSUS. 



Cuv. et VALENC. Hist. Nat. des Poiss. t. iii. p. 442, pi. 70. 

 BLOCH. pt. x. pi. 348, fig. 2. 



)( ,, Surmullet, PENN. Brit. Zool. vol. iii. p. 365. 



>t ,, Red Mullet, COUCH, MS. 



,, Surmullet, JENYNS, Brit. Vert. p. 338. 



PENNANT admitted this fish in his British Zoology on 

 account of one taken on the coast of Scotland, but which it 

 does not appear he had any opportunity of examining. Mr. 

 Couch, according to the manuscript obligingly lent for this 

 work, has had the good fortune to obtain two specimens of 

 this very rare Mullet on the coast of Cornwall ; which are 

 described as showing one yellow line a little below the lateral 

 line, the sides and part of the belly dark red, and the back 

 lighter in colour than the Striped Mullet. A specimen of 

 this Plain Mullet in the collection at the British Museum, 

 and another in my own possession, have the colour of the 

 most delicate carmine on the back and sides, the belly silvery 



