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PAGELLTJS. 



Sea Breams with the molar teeth small, in two rows; the front teeth 

 slender, numerous, the outward series slightly the largest. 



ERYTHRINUS. 



Erythrinus or Rubellio, Jonstox; p. 67, tab. 18, f. 6. 



Willoughby; p. 311, tab. v. 6. 

 Pagellus Erythrinus, Cuvier. Genther; Catalogue of 



Br. Museum, vol. i, p. 473. 



This fish is well known in the Mediterranean, and its range 

 extends so high as the mouth of the Danube. It is also not 

 uncommon to the southward as far as Teneriffe; but its course 

 to the north is less extensive, although it has been taken, not 

 only in Cornwall and Devon, but in the Firth of Forth. 



In its more native seas it is in the habit, like most others 

 of this family, of changing its haunts according to the season; 

 in winter keeping in deeper water, but in summer drawing 

 near the shore, where from the regard in which its flesh is 

 held it becomes an object of interest. Willoughby thought it 

 most excellent in winter; which at least implies that it is caught 

 at that season. 



It may be readily distinguished from our Becker, or from 

 the true Pagrus, with which it has been confounded; and also 

 from the Common Sea Bream, and the Spanish Bream. From 

 the former it differs in its smaller and more lengthened form 

 and sharper snout; in which particulars it also differs from the 

 two last-named species; as well as from the adult growth of 

 the Common Sea Bream in the absence of the conspicuous spot 

 on the side. In the individual I have examined the colour 

 also varied remarkably from all the species of this family I 

 have seen; but this is less to be insisted on since Risso repre- 



