Class IV. STRIPED SURMULLET. 275 



The body very thick, and covered with large 

 fcales ; beneath them the color was a molt beau- 

 tiful rofy red * ; the changes of which, under the 

 thin fcales, gave that entertainment to the Roman 

 epicures as above mentioned : the fcales on the 

 back and fides were of a dirty orange; thofe on 

 the nofe a bright yellow : the tail a reddifh yellow. 



The fides .were marked lengthways with two 

 lines of a light yellow color : thefe, with the red 

 color of the dorfal fins, and the number of their 

 rays, Mr. Ray makes the character of the Cornijh 

 Surmullet : thefe are notes fo liable to vary by acci- 

 dent, that till we receive further information from 

 the inhabitants of our wejiern coafts, where thefe 

 iim are found, we (hall remain doubtful whether 

 we have done right in feparating this from the 

 former, efpecially as DoElor Gronovius has pronoun- 

 ced them to be only varieties. 



* This color is mod vivid during fummer. 



T 2 Nofe 



