TEETH OF CILTHEAD. 



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tion of wliicli is now given to the reader ? The two 

 foremost teeth, it will be observed, are adapted for 

 ni^iping purposes, and by means of these he is enabled 



GiLTHEAD {Sparus aurcita). 



either to tear off from, or else crack wdien still adherent 

 to the rocks, the hard shells upon which it subsists. In 

 order that these shells should be tritm^atedand ground up, 

 we find at the posterior portion of the jaw four stud-like 



TEETH OF THE GILTHEAD. 



