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GOLDEN-TAILED MESOPRION. 



Mesoprion chrysurus Cuv. et VAL. 



PLATE XXV. 



Le Mesoprion a queue d' or, Cuv. et Valen. Hist. Nat. 

 des Poissons, ii. p. 459. 



D. 10.13; A. 3.9; C. 17; P. 14; V. l.Jx 



THIS fish reaches to a large size ; it is of beautiful 

 colours, but is subject to much variety in the depth 

 of the rose and purple colours of the sides. Like 

 the last, the upper parts are of a rich steel blue, 

 tinged with green ; the sides generally of a fine 

 rose colour, tinged with golden yellow ; the tail 

 very much forked, and of a golden yellow. 



