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ESOCID.E. 



ABDOMINAL 

 MALACOPTERYCll. 



ESOCIDM 



THE GREATER FLYING FISH. 



Hirundo, 

 Mugil alatus, 

 Muge volant, 



Hirondelle de mer, 



BELON, p. 195. 

 RONDELET, Lat. E. p. 267. 

 Fr. E. p. 211. 

 WILL. tab. P. f. 4. 

 DUHAMEL, PI. 2, Sec. 8, pi. 6, f. 3. 

 PI. 2, Sec. 3, pi. 22, f. 2. 



Exoaztus exiliens, Le Muge volant, BLOCFI, pt. 12, pi. 397. 



IN a Cornish Fauna, by Jonathan Couch, Esq. which has 

 recently been published for the Royal Institution of Corn- 

 wall, Mr. Couch has included a species of Flying Fish which 

 threw itself on to the Quay at Plymouth, and the specimen is 

 still preserved. From an inspection of this example Mr. 

 Couch was enabled to determine that it was the Greater Fly- 

 ing Fish, Exoctftus exiliens, or Le Muge volant of Bloch, 

 the well-known species of the Mediterranean ; and Mr. Couch 

 adds, that he has reason to believe, from the dimensions as 

 given to him by the possessor, that the individual Flying Fish 



