130 CRENATED MULLET. 



with their nets, which the fish are said to shew 

 great address in escaping from. 



The Mullet is considered as an excellent fish for 

 the table, though not a fashionable one in our own 

 country. Dr. Bloch informs us that it is generally 

 eaten with the addition of oil and lemon-juice. The 

 spawn is often prepared into an inferior kind of 

 Caviar called Botargo, by drying and salting it; in 

 which manner also the fish itself, in plentiful sea- 

 sons, is occasionally preserved. 



CRENATED MULLET. 



Mugil Crenilabis. M. albidus, subfusco thicfilus, labris crcnatis. 

 Whitish Mullet* with brownish stripes, and crenatcd lips. 

 Mugil crenilabis. M. pinna dor sail anterior c radiis quatuor 

 jlexillbus, postcriorc incrmibufi, labiis crcnatis, infcriore bicari- 

 nato. Lin. Gmcl. Forsk. Arab. 



SIZE of the common Mullet : length about twelve 

 inches : colour whitish ; scales rather large, and 

 marked by a dusky streak : upper lip gaping ; 

 lower bicarinated within, and both lips crenulated 

 on the edges : fins glaucous white ; the pectoral 

 marked at the base by a round black spot : tail 

 forked. Native of the Red sea : observed by 

 Forskal, who mentions what he considers as three 

 varieties, in one of which, called Sehdi, the lips are 

 not crenated ; in the second, called Our, both the 

 lips are ciliated, and the lower furnished with a single 

 carina; and in the third, called Tade, the upper lip 

 is finely ciliated, and the pectoral fins are without 

 the black spot. 



