Class IV. 



FLYING FISH. 



333 



Head covered with fcales. 



Pectoral fins almoft as long as the body. 



XXXVIII. 



FLYING 



FISH. 



Hirundo Plinii lib. IX. c. 26. 



* H%oKono$ kou "A$covi$ ? Athe- 

 n&us lib. VIII. 332. Op- 

 pi an Halieut. I. 157. 

 %E7u3»v i Oppian II. 459. 



Rondine. Salvian, 186. 



Hirondelle de mer. Belon, 1 89. 



Mugil alatus. Rondel. 267. 



Gefner pifc. 553. Wil. Icth, 1 59. Winc» 



233- 

 Exocsetus. Arted. fynon. 18. 

 Exocaetus volitans. E. abdo- 



mine utrinque carinato. 



Lin.fyft. 520. Am<zn. Acad. 



I. 603. Gronov. Zoopb. 



No. 359. 



ED, 



TT7E can produce but a Tingle inftance of this 

 V V fpecies -f being taken on the Britijh coafts. 

 In June 1765, one was caught at a fmall diftance 

 below Caermarthen, in the river Towy, being 

 brought up by the tide which flows as far as the 

 town. It is a fifh frequent enough in the Medi- 

 terranean, and alfo in the ocean, where it leads a 

 moft miierable life. In its own element it is per- 

 petually haraffed by the Dorados, and other fifh of 

 prey. If it endeavors to avoid them by having re- 

 courfe to the air, it either meets its fate from the 



* Pliny mentions it under the fame name, lib. IX. c. 19. 



f This fiih was feen by John Strange, Efq; at Caermarthen, 



who was fo obliging as to communicate to me the account of 



Gulls, 





