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FisHrs. 



FAUNULA OF NEW HOLLAND. 



The AnguisPlaturos, GmeL Lin. 1122; Vofmaer, 6. tab. ^\ with 

 a brown back and white belly, and fpotted near the tail with 

 black and white, was found by Dodtor Forjler near the ifle of 

 Pines in the fouth feas. Mr. Vofmaer has engraven, on the fame 

 plate, another fafciated with brown and tawny; poflibly the 

 fame with that defcribed by Dampier, iii. 93. 



Fishes are very numerous; whales are common, and the 

 Porpejfe, Br. Zool. iii. N° 25, is univerfal in the South Sea, and 

 very numerous. I may mention our Dolphin, Br. Zool. iii. N° 24^ 

 which appears in the diftant feas. Here are two very curious 

 fmall fliarks, figured by Mr. Pbilllp, tab. 51, 52. The firll: with a 

 flrong Iharp fpine before each dorfal fin ; the other fpotted, and 

 with its mouth befet with ragged appendages. 



His bag-throated Balifles, tab. 49, has the appearance of a 

 monfter. Mr. IFbite, in tab. 39, reprefents \ht granulated. 



Mr. Phillip gives befides the figure of a fifli with a dorfal fin 

 extending the length of the back, and no others except the pec- 

 toral and caudal ; he fays it is faithfully done ; it is fpotted with 

 round blue and white fpots. The Cyprinaceous Labrus of Mr.. 

 White, tab. 50 ; the doubtful LophiuSf tab. 51 ; the pungent 

 ChiCtodoni tab. 39 ; the fouthern Coitus, and the Jiying JiJJj, tab. 52 ^ 

 \.\iQ fafcinated Mullet, and doubtful Sparus, tab. 53. 



The Fijlularia Tabacaria, Echineis remora, and the Atberina 

 bepfetus, Br. Zool. in. N*" 157. 64, concUide Mr. White'^ lift. 



Rays are very numerous, and of feveral kinds, in all the flial- 

 lows of this coaft ; fome weigh near three hundred pounds. A 

 fpecies of fting-ray is very common, and furnillies, with its fpines, 

 the head of one of the moft dreaded weapons of the natives. 



Dampier, yo\. iii. tab. 3, adds the large fpecies of Tunny, and 

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