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tiot cover the teeth : I have not difcovered that 

 they have any noflrils ; the eyes are elevated, 

 very prominent, oblong, and (land near one 

 another on the head ; the pupilla is blue ; the 

 irides of a golden colour ; the back grey, with 

 red and blue dirty fpots ; the belly whitiih ; 

 the whole body oblong, as long as a man's hand, 

 and as it were compreffed. 



2. Tan-noao (Gobhts niger Linn.) The 

 tQembrana branch'wjlega has four rays ; the firft 

 dor/a I fin is almoft quadrangular in the middle 

 of the back, and has eleven rays ; the fecond 

 is longer, and lefs, oppofite the anus, has ten 

 rays, is tranfparcnt on both fides, with tranf- 

 verfal black lines ; the fingle ventral fin forms 

 a funnel, and has twelve rays ; the anal fin 

 has thirteen rays; the fpace between the 

 fecond dorfal fin and the tail, and that between 

 the anal fin and the tail, is equal to the 

 breadth of one's little finger ; the tail ends in 

 a point, and has eighteen rays, of which the 

 outermoft are the fhorteft; the body is the 

 fame as that of the preceding fifh, except its 

 having more white and dirty black grey ; the 

 head is large, and has very fmall white dots ; 

 jfce movAh is much lefs, and almofl round "J I 



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