4 SPARID^. 



ACANTHOPTERL SPARiD.fi. 



COUCH'S SEA-BREAM. 



Pagrus orpkus, Le Pagre Orphe, CTTV. et VALENO. vi. p. 150, pi. 149. 

 " Awataorphns" ,, ,, Risso, 2 e edit. p. 356. 

 Couch's Sea-Bream, ,, COUCH. (Ion.) Zool. for 1843, p. 81. 



Pagellus Rondeletii, COUCH. (R.Q.) Zool. for 1846, p. 1406. 



ONLY one example of this fish is known to have been 

 captured on the English coast, and, as is the case with 

 several other occasional or rare visitants of the Cornish 

 shores, we owe its enrolment in the list of British Fishes 

 to the acuteness and active zeal of Jonathan Couch, Esq. 

 The specimen figured above was taken on the 8th of 

 November 1842 with a baited hook, at a rocky place 

 termed the Edges, three miles south of Polperro. Its 

 weight was six pounds. Mr. Couch having presented 

 the specimen to the British Museum, Dr. Gray, Keeper 

 of the Zoological Department of that Institution, has 

 most kindly furnished the following account of it : 



" The specimen is stuffed. The front teeth above and 

 below are four on each side, the upper ones being conical, 

 the lower ones elongato-conical, and set widely apart. 

 Behind these, but in the front part of both jaws, there is 

 a crowded patch of small subulate teeth. On the limbs 

 of the jaws the molars are large with globular crowns, 



