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fish into a new and distinct genus, founding upon 

 the statements of Duhamel ; and not satisfied with 

 this, but imagining he detected a variety of his 

 genus in the Chinese drawings to which he had 

 access, he concluded it was an inhabitant of the 

 Indian and Pacific Oceans. 



The largest specimen, in the Paris Museum, was 

 obtained from Havre in the year 1804. Turton 

 described it, in his British Fauna, under the name 

 of Zeus luna; Sowerby, in the 22d plate of his 

 British Miscellany, as the Zeus opah ; and Dono- 

 van, in his Nat. Hist, of British Fishes, in 1806, 

 mentions that three examples had been recently 

 noticed on the Scottish coasts. Dr. Neill, in his 

 valuable Paper on the Wernerian Memoirs, 1808, 

 gives additional information. A few years ago, he 

 tells us that a very fine one was taken off Cramond, 

 which was preserved in the Museum of Mr. (sub- 

 sequently Sir Patrick) Walker, a well-known and 

 indefatigable Naturalist. Another, about the same 

 time, was found near Burntisland, but not pre- 

 served; and a third was stranded near Arbroath, 

 and exhibited as a spectacle at Dundee. " During 

 my visit," adds the Doctor, " in 1804, to Orkney, 

 I was surprised to find this fish accurately described 

 as having been several times cast ashore during 

 storms." In 1829, M. F. Faber furnished some 

 interesting details concerning the Lampris in his 

 History of the Fishes of Iceland. It would appear 

 that one of them was taken on these icy coasts in 

 1672, and that others had since been captured, 



