1 14 ACANTHOPTERYGII. CH^TODONTID^. 



Mr. Yarrell describes it as not particularly rare 

 on our shores, enumerating the Frith of Clyde, 

 the coast of Argyle, the Frith of Forth, and 

 St. Andrews, as localities in Scotland, where 

 it has been taken ; and, in England, Berwick 

 Bay, the mouth of the Tees, the coast of Devon, 

 and that of Cornwall ; as well as at Swansea in 

 Wales, and at Belfast in Ireland. It occurs 

 also all along the western shores of Europe, as 

 far north as Norway, and is abundant in the Me- 

 diterranean. 



Ray's Sea-Bream attains a length of thirty 



RAY'S SEA-BREAM. 



inches, and a height, including the fins, of about 

 half as much. The eye is large, with the iris 

 darker than the pupil ; the back is very dark 

 blue ; the upper part of the head coppery-brown, 

 with a band of blue across the forehead ; the 

 sides and belly are silvery, mingled with coppery 

 and lake-pink hues on the upper parts, and marked 

 with irregular dusky stripes on the sides ; the 

 dorsal and anal fins, being scaled, shine like bur- 

 nished silver. 



