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MUGILID.E. 



ACAf^THOPTERYGIL 



MUG J LI D^. 



THE GREY MULLET. 



l\h(gil capita, Cuvier, Regne An. t. ii. p. 232. 

 ,, cep/ifl/us, WiLLUGHBY, p. 174, tab. K.3. 

 „ ,, Grey Mullet, Penn. Brit. Zool. vol. iii. p. 346, pi. 77. 



Don. Brit. Fish. pi. 15. ' 

 ,, ,, Common Mullet, Flem. Brit. An. p. 217, sp. 159. 



Generic Characters. — Body nearly cylindrical, covered with large scales ; 

 two dorsal fins, widely separated, the rays of the first fin spinous, those of the 

 second flexible ; ventral fins behind the pectorals ; middle of the under jaw 

 with an elevated angular point, and a corresponding groove in the upper ; 

 teeth small ; branchiostegous rays 6. 



Baron Cuvier, in the last edition of his Regne Animal, 

 states, in a note at the foot of page 231, that Linntcus and 

 several of his successors have confounded all the European 

 Grey Mullets under one common name, — that of Mugil 

 cephalus. He has, however, distinguished among them 

 several species : and according to him, the descri])tion of the 

 ci'phalua of Willughby and the figure of the cephalus of 



