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RED-HEADED CYCHLA. 

 Cychla f rutUcm. 



PLATE V. 

 Schwib. Drawings, No. 71. 



OUR Notes are also very scanty in regard to this 

 species, but the Drawing is more than usually mi- 

 nute. " It was taken in the Rio Branco in April 

 The teeth were, a row in each jaw, and some in i 

 front ; tongue round and fleshy. The scaling was 

 very small, fringed, and deciduous. Small fish were 

 found in the stomach. The air-bag single, pointed, 

 and as long as the body." The upper half of the 

 head and body is of a delicate pale green, continued 

 on the rays of the dorsal, anal, and caudal fins, the 

 membranous parts of which are bluish grey. The 

 lower half of the head, the breast, and ventral fin, 

 are rich vermilion-red, darker on the upper lip and 

 edges of the opercle and preopercle ; the remaining 

 part of the lower half of the body, to the centre of 

 the insertion of the anal fin, is pale rose-colour, 

 shading into the green above. The extremity of the 

 body, below the curved part of the lateral line, is 

 greei*h grey ; the pectoral fin is wood-brown ; at 



