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men, and the whole fish pretty thickly marked with 

 small, round, deep blood-red spots : eyes yellow. 

 Native of the American seas. 



ATLANTIC SPARUS. 



Sparus Atlanticus. S.fusco-flavescens, punctis numerosis rubris. 

 Yellow-brown Sparus, with numerous red specks. 

 Perca maculata. Block, t. 313. 

 Sparus Atlanticus. Cepede. 4. p. 158. 

 Var ? Catesb. Carol 2. t. 14. 



COLOUR yellowish, with the back brownish, and 

 abdomen pale : the whole fish thickly marked on 

 all parts with small, round red spots, with dark 

 centres : size of the two preceding species : native 

 of the American seas. 



Of this species a supposed variety is mentioned 

 by Cepede, from a drawing by Plumier, and is of a 

 brown or blackish colour, each of the red spots 

 being marked in the middle by a deeper red. It is 

 called by Plumier Turdus alius niger, maculis pur- 

 pureis oculatus. This is probably the fish figured 

 by Catesby under the name of the Hind. 



