of Fishes found in Cornwall. 79' 



sal fins, the first having flexible rays, the second long and 

 narrow ; tail very deeply lunated ; the pectorals long ; the 

 ventrals double or having a wing, by which means it seemed 

 to have four ventral fins ; the anal fleshy, and somewhat 

 expanded at the origin, obscure in its progress towards the 

 tail ; no lateral line ; a broad band from eye to eye ; the 

 colour blue, deeper on the back than on the belly ; covered 

 with large scales, as well the body as the fins, so that the 

 dorsals and anals seem like an extension of the body. I was 

 unable to count the rays of the dorsal fins. 



♦' b!o Sparus. .;c;;,i.> 



Bream, S. Smarts. — This is taken at all 'seasons, but chiefly 

 abounds in summer and autumn ; the young ones, called 

 Chads, which have not the lateral spot until the second 

 year of their growth, are in vast numbers in summer. 

 Becker, S. Pagrus. — This species is seen only in summer and 

 autumn ; the young ones never approach the shores like 

 the Chads, ..hi ?.W^ 



Oldwife, S. Vetula,C. — Although the English name here given to 

 a species of Sparus is applied by naturalists to one of a diffe- 

 i rent genus, yet I am obliged to use it to designate a fish pre- 

 V/l sently to be described, as it is the only one which our fisher- 

 men make use of. The body is deep, compressed, and has 

 a considerable resemblance to the S. Pagrus ; the lips are 

 fleshy, and the jaws furnished with a pavement of teeth, of 

 which those in front are the longest ; the gill-membrane has 

 five rays ; the gill-covers and body are covered with large 

 scales. The ten first rays of the dorsal fin are spinous ; the 

 anal fin also has four spinous rays, after which it becomes 

 ' more expanded ; the tail is concave. This fish has a mem- 

 branous septum across the palate, as in the Wrasse genus. 



When 



