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PARROT CORYPHENE. 



Coryphaena Psittacus. C. capite varicgato, corpore macula versi- 



coluri rhombca. 

 Coryphene with variegated head, and body marked by a 



variously coloured rhomboid spot. 

 Coryphaena Psittacus. C. lima laterali intercepta, pinnis longi- 



tudinalibus colore lineatis. Lin. &yst. Nat. p, 448. 



OBSERVED by Dr. Garden in the American seas : 

 head beautifully variegated : irides flame-colour 

 edged with blue : on the middle of the body towards 

 the back a rhomboid purple spot, accompanied 

 by green, yellow, and blue variegations : vent in 

 the middle of the body : dorsal and anal fin linear ; 

 the former commencing from the head and reach- 

 ing, like the vent fin, to the tail, which is even at 

 the end : the beautiful colours of this species, like 

 those of the common Coryphene, are observed to 

 vanish as the fish expires. 



MACKREL CORYPHENE. 



Coryhpaena Scomberoides. C. argentea, dorso sulcceruko, pinna 



dorsali analique versus caudam smuatis. 

 Silvery Coryphene, with blueish back, and the dorsal and anal 



fin sinuated towards the tail. 

 Le Coryphene scomberoide. Cepcde 3, p. 192. 



DESCRIBED by Cepede from the manuscripts of 

 Commerson, who observed it in the South seas. 

 Size between that of a Mackrel and a Herring: 



