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RED-HEADED CYCHLA. 



Cychla ? rxUilans. 



PLATE V. 

 Schomb. Dratvinr/s, No. 71. 



OcjR Notes are also very scanty in regard to this 

 species, but the Drawing is more than usually mi- 

 nute. " It was taken in the Rio Branco in April. 

 The teeth were, a row in each jaw, and some in 

 front ; tongue 'round and fleshy. The scaling was 

 very small, fringed, and deciduous. Small fish were 

 found in the stomach. The air-bag single, pointed, 

 and as long as the body." The upper half of the 

 head and body is of a delicate pale green, continued 

 on the rays of the dorsal, anal, and caudal fins, the 

 membranous parts of w^hich are bluish grey. The 

 lower half of the head, the breast, and ventral fin, 

 are rich vermilion-red, darker on the upper lip and 

 edges of the opercle and preopercle ; the remaining 

 part of the lower half of the body, to the centre of 

 the insertion of the anal fin, is pale rose-colour, 

 shading into the green above. The extremity of the 

 body, below the curved part of the lateral Hne, is 

 greenish grey ; the pectoral fin is wood-brown ; at 



