BLUE CORYPHENE. 



edged with blue : the whole body is covered with 

 moderately large scales, none being visible on the 

 head. The specimen figured in the manuscripts of 

 Plumier measured about eighteen inches in length, 

 but the fish probably grows to a much larger size. 



BLUE CORYPHENE. 



Coryphaena Cserulea. C. tota ccerulca, squamis magnis, cauda 



lunata. 



Blue Coryphene, with large scales, and crescent-shaped tail. 

 Coryphaena caerulea. C. tota c&rulea. Lin. Syst. Nat. Gmel, 



1191. Block, pi US. 

 Novacula caerulea. , Catcsb. car. 2. pi. IS. 



THIS is a native of the American seas, and is 

 easily distinguished from most other species by its 

 uniform blue colour, as well as by its great depth 

 or breadth of body and the superior size of its 

 scales : the head is very large, but short, and is 

 covered with smaller scales than those of the body. 

 It is found of the length of eighteen inches or two 

 feet, and may probably grow to a much larger 

 size. In its manner of living it resembles the rest 

 of the genus, It appears to have been first de- 

 scribed aud figured by Plumier, in whose manu- 

 scripts occurred the representation given by Dr. 

 Bloch, and repeated in the present work. It is 

 also tolerably well represented by Catesby in his 

 Natural History of Carolina, 



