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THE MATGRE. 



Sci(Pini aquila, Cuv. €t Valf.nc. Hist. Nnt. ties Poiss. t. v. p. 28, pi. 100. 



Umbra Rondeletii, WiLLucHBy, p. 299, tab. S. 19. 



CheUodiptere aigle, LAfFPF.DE. 



Sricrna aquila, Flkm. Brit. An. p. 213, sp. 144. 



Generic Characters. — Body covered with scales : two dorsal fins ; spines of 

 the anal fin slender : a single row of strong teeth in each jaw ; a narrow line of 

 small ones in the upper jaw only, none on the vomer or palatine bones : pre- 

 operculum serrated, when young; operculum ending with one or more spines ; 

 branchiostegous rays 7. 



The limited space to be devoted to eacli species in this 

 work, will not allow an opportunity of followino- Cuvier 

 and M. Valenciennes throngli the long chain of historical 

 research by which they have succeeded in clearing the Eu- 

 ropean Scicenidce. from the obscurity in which they were 

 involved by the older writers. 'J'his important branch 

 of Tchthyological history, for which Baron Cuvior was so 



* '\\w family of the JMaigres. 



