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Class IV. 



GILT-HEAP. 



XXV. 

 GILT- 

 HEAD. 



Covers of the gills fcaty. 



Five branchioftegous rays. 



Fore teeth fharp. 



Grinders flat. 



One dorfal fin, reaching the whole length of the 



back, 

 Forked tail. 



112. LUNU- 

 LATED. 



Xgv<ro<p%u$. Oppian Halieut, 



I. 169. 

 Chryfophrys. Ovid Halieut. 



III. 

 Aurata Plinii, Lib. IX. c. 16. 

 La Dorade. Belon, 186. 



Chryfophry Caii opufc. 112. 

 Aurata. Rondel. 115. Gefner 



pifc. 110. 112. 



Gilt-head or Gilt-poll. WiL 

 Icth. 307. Rati fyn. pifc. 131. 



Spams dorfo acutiflimo, linea 

 arcuata inter oculos. Arted. 

 fynon. 63. 



Sparus lunula aurea inter ocu- 

 los. Lin. fyfl. 467. Gro- 

 7io<v. Zoopb. No. 220. 



THIS is one of the pifces faxatiles, or fifh 

 that haunt deep waters on bold rocky 

 fhores : thofe that form this genus, as well as the 

 following, feed chiefly on Ihell fifh, which they 

 comminute with their teeth before they fwallow; 

 the teeth of this genus in particular being extreme- 

 ly well adapted for that purpofe, the grinders be- 

 ing flat and ftrong, like thofe of certain quadru- 

 peds : belides thofe are certain bones in the low- 

 er part of the mouth, which affift in grinding their 

 food. 



They 



