94 OSBECK'S VOYAGE. 



you throw forae bread to the fifh ; for here 

 both birds and fifhes are as it were tame. 

 The firft dorfal-fin has two, and the fecond 

 thirty-four rays : the pecloralfins have fix- 

 teen rays : inftead of the ventral-fins, there 

 is only one fingle ray : the anal-Jin has thirty- 

 one rays : the tail is falcated, and has thirteen 

 rays ; eight lines run towards the tail : the 

 fcales are rough and rhomboidal : the teeth 

 are like mens teeth, but double : the anal-fin 

 and fecond dorfal-fin have a blue (tripe at the 

 bottom : the reft of the body is black. The 

 Mi is like the preceding {Balijies Yetulci), but 

 generally larger. 



Sea Blew ling, Scomber (glaucus*) cminentiis 

 later alibus cauda aculeatis. The firft dorfal-fin 

 has feven, the fecond twenty-five, the pectoral- 

 fins twenty, the ventral five, and the anal-fin 

 twenty-five, rays : the feven rays of the firft 

 dorfalfin are fomewhat prickly : the firft feven 

 rays of the fecond dorfal-fin are the longeft, 

 and begin before the anus: all the other rays 

 are fhorter, round, and do not prickle : the 

 fpace between both is very fmall : the -pecloral- 

 fins are bent, and have twenty rays, of which 

 the mod outward ones are four inches long : 

 ;he ventral-fins are but half the length of the 



s Adfcenfurus, Ofbeck. 

 5 pectoral- 



