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seen above two or three specimens, which were taken with 

 Sea Bream, and with the same kind of baits. Its habits 

 seem to be like those of the Sea Bream." 



To this may be added, that the food of this species con- 

 sists of small fishes and testaceous animals. They swim in 

 small shoals ; visiting the shore in spring, and remaining till 

 autumn. Neither Pennant nor Mr. Donovan have included 

 the Spanish Bream in their accounts of British Fishes ; but 

 Mr. Wallcott, whose MS. and drawings have been already 

 mentioned, and will frequently be referred to, appears to 

 have met with it at Teignmouth ; and his drawings contain 

 a most accurate representation of this fish. 



The figure of this fish at the head of the page is from the 

 work of Cuvier and M. Valenciennes. I should have availed 

 myself of the drawing by Mr. Wallcott, taken from an Eng- 

 lish specimen, but the wood-block had been engraved when 

 the MS. and its illustrations came into my hands. 



Since the publication of this species in the first edition of 

 the British Fishes, I have received two specimens from Mr. 

 Couch for my use, and two from Dr. Parnell, one taken on 

 the Devonshire coast, and the other in a salmon-net near 

 Musselburgh, where a second specimen was also taken. 

 This fish, except in size, bears considerable resemblance to 

 the Pagrus, last described, but the small carding teeth want 

 the row of elongated conical teeth which surrounds them on 

 the outside in both jaws of the Pagrus. The teeth, as re- 

 presented in the vignette here added, were drawn from those 

 of the most perfect of the four specimens now before me. 

 The largest fish measures fourteen inches in length ; the eye 

 is larger in proportion than in Pagrus, the diameter of the 

 orbit being greater than the breadth of the operculum ; the 

 cheeks, operculum, and interoperculum, covered with scales, 

 the interoperculum forming part of a circle ; the suborbital 

 bone and the preoperculum silvery, both granulated on the 



