CANARY ISLANDS. 1751- 105 



not only not touched, but alio preferred by it 

 againft all their enemies. Pfalm cvi. ver, ii. 

 " Who can utter the mighty acts of the Lord? 

 " Who can fJjezu forth all his praife ?" This 

 fcarce and remarkable fiih I had an opportunity 

 of defcribing : it is Scomber ccoruko-albus cin- 

 gulis tranfuerfis nigrisfex, dorfo monoptcrygio. 

 See the Memoirs of the Swedifh Academy of 

 Sciences, for the year 1755, vol. xvi. p. 71. 

 of the Swedifh edition. Or 



Gqfteroftcus Duclor, Linn. Syft. Nat. a fpe- 

 cies of fcickle-back. Pilote pifc'is, by Ray 

 Pifc. 156. Vid. tab. 12. 



The membrajia branchioflega has fix rays : 

 the cpercidum branchiarum confiits of two en- 

 tire griftles : the elevations on the (ides of the 

 tail are fharp and foft : the dorfal fin begins 

 on the middle of the back and ends near the 

 tail: it has thirty rays, whereof the three 

 firft are hard, fhort, and fcarcely perceptible ; 

 the next following are longer ; but the reft 

 keep decreafing, and are divided: the pecloral 

 fins are fmall, and have nineteen rays: the 

 anal fin has fixteen rays : the tail is furcated, 

 and has twenty-fix rays, with black tops : the 

 head is narrow : the forehead is blunt : the 

 jaws are about equal in length, yet the lower 



feems 



