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BORDERED CH^ETODON. 



Chsetodon Marginatus. C. flams, fasciis tmnsversis fwcis, 



pinnisfusco-marginatis. 

 Yellow Chaetodon, with transverse brown bands, and fins 



bordered with brown. 

 Chaetodon marginatus. Block, t. 207. 



A SPECIES of considerable beauty : body ovate : 

 colour on the upper parts yellow, on the lower dull 

 rose-colour : back of a dusky cast : body crossed 

 by seven or eight equidistant deep-brown bars, 

 the last crossing the base of the tail : all the fins 

 are yellow, bordered with deep brown : dorsal fin 

 broad and falcated at its extremity, but not reach- 

 ing to the end of the tail : anal fin much smaller 

 than the dorsal and situated more backward, being 

 placed beneath the dilated part of the dorsal : tail 

 very much forked, the points turning inwards in a 

 falcated manner : scales moderately large : none 

 at the base of the fins: no spines, either at the 

 origin of the dorsal fin or at the gill-covers. Na- 

 tive of the American seas : grows to the length 

 of a foot, and is numbered among the edible fishes. 



