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have twelve teeth in three rows at the bottom, 

 which accordingly make thirty-fix : the anal- 

 Jin reaches from the anus almoll to the tail, is 

 like the fecond dorfal-fin, and has twenty- 

 eight rays : the tail is falcated, and has twelve 

 rays, of which the outermoft are the longeft : 

 the length of the whole fifh is fcarce a foot : 

 the teeth are broad, and eight in each jaw: 

 the lips are thick, moveable, and marked with 

 a blue line on the infide : on each fide run 

 two blue lines, and above thefe a green one, 

 from the mouth to the pe£fc>ral-flns : from each 

 eye arife nine crooked green rays on each fide : 

 the eyes are in the upper part of the head, 

 near the firft dorfal-fin; towards the pe&oral- 

 fins they are large, have a green circle, and 

 are marked with fix oblong blue points at the 

 top : the anal-Jin and laft dorfal-fin are blue, 

 and this colour is likewife at the bottom and 

 margin of the tail : the fides are fhaded green 

 below the fecond dorfal-fin : the belly is white, 

 oblong, thick. The fifh eats oyfters and 

 fnails, and is generally caught at the bottom 

 of the fea. 



Balistes ringens Linn. Nigra Ofbeck. 



This fifh may frequently be caught with 



the hands, namely, when the water throws 



its waves a great way on the land, and 



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