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PLUMIER'S MULLET. 



Mugil Plumieri. M. luteus, ore amplo, pinnis dorsalibus duabus 



spinosis. 



Yellow Mullet, with wide mouth, and both dorsal fins spiny. 

 Mugil ore amplo. Block, t. 396. 



LENGTH about twelve inches : shape like that of 

 the Tang, but with a very large head, wide mouth, 

 and fleshy lips, which appear beset with a row of 

 very small teeth round the edges : colour yellow^ 

 deeper or brownish-orange above : fins pale yellow : 

 the first dorsal with four very strong rays : second 

 dorsal with six strong rays also : scales large, 

 rounded, striated,, and each marked at the base by 

 a dusky spot : tail slightly lunated. Native of the 

 American seas : observed by Plumier, from whose 

 drawing Dr. Bloch's figure of this species was 

 engraved. 



BLUE-SPOTTED MULLET. 



Mullus Caeruleomaculatus. M. fusco-c<rulescens 3 abdomint 

 argenteo, pinna dorsali radiis novem, pectoralibus macula 

 ccerulea. 



Blueish-brown Mullet, with silvery abdomen, nine rays in the 

 dorsal fin, and a blue spot in the pectoral fins. 



Mugil cseruleo-maculatus. Cepede. 5. p. 889. 



SIZE of common Mullet : colour blueish brown, 

 with silvery abdomen : dorsal and caudal fins 

 brown : lower fins pale : at the base of the pectoral 



