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CENTRISCUS. 



Form of the body compressed, oblong, or elevated; the anterior bones 

 of the skull brought forward into a long tube, at the end of which is 

 a small mouth having no teeth. Body with a cuirass, or separate bony 

 plates. Two dorsal fius, the first with a very strong spine; ventral 

 fins small, on the belly. 



TRUMPET-EISH. 



BELLOWS-FISH. 



ScoloiX'T, 



Balisics seolopax; 

 Centriscus scolopax-, 

 Centvisque becasse, 

 Solenostemus scolopcw, 

 Centriscus scolopax, 



JoNSTON; Table 1, f. 9, but this name is 

 Bot derived from the same Greek word 

 which signifies a woodcock, but from 

 Scolops, a long and slender instrument, 

 from which also the bird itself obtained 

 its designation. 



WiLLOUGHBY; p. 160, table 25, f. 2, 

 representing a dry specimen. 



ArTEDI and LiNNjEUS. 



CuviER. Blocii; pi. 123, f. 1, a poor figure. 



Lacepede. 



Eisso. 



Fleming; Br. Animals, p. 220. 



Donovan; pi. 63. 



Jenyns; Manual, p. 400. 



Yarrell; Br. Fishes, vol. i, p. 316. 



Gunthee; Cat. Br. M., vol. iii, p. 518. 



This curious fish can scarcely be said to be common in 

 any part of the Mediterranean, and it is scarce everywhere 

 else. Willoughby met with some examples in the fish-market 

 at Rome, whither they had been brought for sale as food; but 

 at best, and in a country where very little birds and fishes 

 furnish a supply for the table, these can add but little for 



