11!S SPARID.E. 



specimen, measuring fifteen inches in length, has been 

 brought to the London market, and is now carefully pre- 

 served ; and another has been taken about eight inches long 

 at the mouth of the Tweed. Dr. Fleming has recorded 

 having seen one specimen caught in the estuary of the Tay 

 in the month of August. It does not appear, however, to 

 proceed so far north as some other species of the same family, 

 and is not included in the Fauna of Fabricius or Muller. 

 Duhamel has remarked of the species of Chrysophrys, that 

 they are averse to cold, and that numbers perished in the 

 severe winter of 1766. 



The Chrysophrys, so called by the Greeks on account 

 of their golden-coloured eyebrows, from whence also the 

 names of aurata, dorade, and Gilt-head have arisen, like 

 most of the Sparidae^ frequents deep water on bold rocky 

 shores, where they are occasionally caught by lines or 

 nets. They are said to spawn in summer ; and their 

 food consists of molluscous and testaceous animals, which 

 their rounded teeth and strong jaws enable them to break 





