GlI/r-llKAl). 



97 



AC.W'THOl'TKKVail. 



SPARl I) /{■:." 



THE GILT-HEAD. 



Chrysophrys aurata, Cvv. et Vaikac. Hist, Nat. des Poiss. t. vi. p. 85, 



pi. 145. 

 Aitrata RondeLetii, VVii.ta'ghhv, p. 307, tab. \'. 5. 

 Spurns aurnta, Linn.eus- 



,, ,, Bloch, pt. viii. pi. 266. 



,, ,, Gilt-head, PEyif. Brit. Zool. vol. iii. p. 327, but not 



plate 66. 

 Fi.EM. Brit. An. p. 211, sp. 136? 



Generic Characters. — Body deep, compressed ; dorsal fin single, the rays 

 partly spinous, the posterior rays flexible ; teeth of two kinds, six incisors in 

 each jaw, conical, with rounded and oval molar teeth, in four rows above and 

 three rows below ; cheeks and operculum covered with scales ; branchiostegous 

 rays 6. 



The Gilt-head is one of the fishes most abundant 

 in the Mediterranean : from Gibraltar it is found as far 

 south as the Cape of Good Hope, and northward along 

 the coast of Spain and France ; thence to the bold shore 



* The family of ^lariue Bream. 



vol.. I. 



