SPARIU^E. 

 ACANTHOPTERL SPARID^E. 



THE BOGUE. 



BOGA, Provence, Madeira. BOBBA, Venice. UOPPA, 

 Messina. BALAIJOLA, Catania. 



Box vulgaris, Le Bogue commun, CUVIER et VALENC. vi. p. 348, pi. 161. 

 Box vel Boops, ,, ,, BELON. de Aq. p. 230. 



,, ,, ,, ,, RONDELET, PisC. p. 136. 



Boops Rondeletii primus, WILLTJGHBY, 317, t. U. 8. f. 1. 



Box vulgaris, Common Bogue, YARRELL, Zool. for 1843, p. 85. 



Box or BOOPS. Generic Character. Body elongated, rounded, the dorsal 

 and ventral profiles alike, and the general aspect peculiarly trim. Mouth 

 small ; premaxillary very little movable, overlapped together with the maxil- 

 lary and edge of the mandible by the preorbitar when the mouth is shut. 

 Teeth uniserial, incisorial, chisel-shaped, lobed, and crenated. Stomach 

 very small, with a long pyloric branch, and about five pancreatic casca. Air- 

 bladder large, thin, and nacry, with two long, posterior, horn-like appendages, 

 which enter among the muscles of the tail. 



THE BOGUE, or BOGA, abounds in the Mediterranean, 

 and as it has an Atlantic range southwards to Madeira 

 and the Canaries, and according to Cornide, northwards 

 to the coasts of Galicia, it is precisely one of the fish that 

 might be expected to pay occasional visits to the southern 

 extremity of England, but Alfred Fox, Esq., of Fal- 

 mouth, is the only person who as yet has had the fortune 



