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PARROT SPARUS. 



Sparus Psittacus. S, rostro cunato, corpora utrinque longi* 



tudinallter striato. 



Sparus with curved snout, and longitudinally-striated body. 

 Spare Ferroquet. Cepede. 4. p. 4"J. 



MUCH allied to the preceding species : observed 

 by Commerson in the Indian seas* 



VIRGINIAN SPARUS. 



Sparus Virginicus. S. fasciis (habits transversis nigris, lineis 

 plurimis longitudiaalibiu citrulcis. 



Sparus widi two black transverse bands^ and numerous longi- 

 tudinal blue lines. 



Sparus Virginian. Ian. Gmel. 



GILL-COVERS subserrated : body marked by nu- 

 merous parallel longitudinal streaks: the first black 

 band passes across the eyes : the second from the 

 shoulders, over the sides of the thorax, to the pecto- 

 ral fins 3 tail bilobate and obtuse. Native of the 

 American seas. 



