Class IV. O P A H. 223 



The firft dorfal fin confifts of ten ftrong fpiny 

 rays, with long filaments, reaching far beyond their 

 ends : the fecond is placed near the tail, and con- 

 fifts of twenty-four foft rays, the middlemoft of 

 which are the longeft. 



The pectoral fins have fourteen fays, the ventral 

 feven ; the firft fpiny, the others foft : it has two 

 anal fins ; the firit confifts of four fharp fpines, 

 the fecond of twenty-two foft ones, and reaches 

 very near the tail. 



The tail is round at the end, and confifts of 

 fifteen branched rays. 



The color of the fides is olive, varied with light 

 blue and white, and while living is very refplen- 

 dent, and as if gilt, for which reafon it is called 

 the Doree. 



The largeft fifti we have heard of, weighed 

 twelve pounds. 



Opah, or King-fifii. Ph. argenteo purpureo fplen- I0I . Opah. 



Trans, abr. XI. 879. Tab. dens. Strom. Sondmor. 323, 



V. 325. Tab. i* Jig* 20. 



Zeus cauda bifurca, colore 



WE have only five inftances of this fifh being 

 taken in our feas, four of them in the Norths 

 viz, twice off Scotland*, once off Northumberland, 



* The iifli engraved by Sir Robert Sibbald. Hi/?. Scot. Tab, 6. 

 ,and thus defcribed, is of this kind. Pijcis maculis aureis afperfus 

 mnjcriptusy pollices 42 longus. 



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