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which is rounded at the tip. This beautiful fish is 

 a native of the American seas, and some of its 

 varieties seem to have been considered by authors 

 as distinct species. 



VAR. ? 



Pleuronectes lunatus. P. corpore ocellis dimidiatis sparsis 

 c&ruleis. Lin. Syst. Nat. Gmel. p. 1239. Solea lunata et 

 punctata. Catesb. Car. 2. t. 27. 



OBSERVED by Catesby, who in his Natural History 

 of Carolina represents it as of a pale brown colour, 

 with numerous blue crescent-shaped spots, and 

 lunated tail. 



VAR. ? 



Pleuronectes Mancus. P. capite tubcrculato, pinnis pectoralibus 

 incequalibus. Im. Syst. Nat. Gmel. p. 1238. Brouss. ichth. 

 dec. 1. t.3. 4. 



BODY of an oblong elliptic form, covered with 

 rather large scales : right side and fins cinereous, 

 with blackish specks and unequal, blueish, lunated 

 and circular variegations : left side greyish white, 

 with round brown spots : pectoral fin on the left 

 side falcate, on the right oblong-ovate. Native of 

 the American and Indian seas. 



