Class IV. FORKED HAKE. 



*93 



Thefe fifh are from a foot and an half to near Descri*. 

 twice that length : they are of a {lender make, of 

 a pale afh color on their backs, and of a dirty 

 white on their bellies. 



Their head is flat and broad ; the mouth very 

 wide ; the teeth very long and fharp, particularly 

 thofe of the lower jaw. 



The firft dorfal fin is fmall, confiding of nine 

 rays ; the fecond reaches from the bafe of the 

 former almoft to the tail, and is compofed of forty 

 rays, of which the laft are the higheft : the pecto- 

 ral fins have about twelve, the ventral feven : the 

 anal thirty-nine. 



The tail is almoft even at the end. 



Galee, claria marina. Belon, Ictb. 205. Raii fyn. pifc, 82. Fork e* 4 



126. 75. 



Phycis. Rondel. 186. Ge/ner Phycis. Arted.fynon. App. 1IL 



pifc. 718. Blennius Phycis. Lin. fyft. 



Tinea marina. Aldr, WiL 442. 



THIS is the fifh to which Rondektius gives the 

 name of Phycis, borrowing it from Ariftotlq 

 and Pliny, who have not fo fufficiently characterized 

 it, as to enable us to judge what fpecies they in- 

 tended. It is found in the Mediterranean more fre- 

 quently than in" our feas, and we believe is the fifh 

 mentioned by Mr. Armftrong, and Doctor Clegborn*? 



* drmftrcng, 161. C leghorn, 43, 



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