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Sl'ARlD.E. 



ACANTHOPTERYG1L 



SPAR1DJE. 



THE BRAIZE OR BECKER. 



Pagrus vulgaris, Cuv. et VALJENC. Hist. Nat. des Poiss. t.vi. p. 142, pi. 148. 



Sparus pagrus, LINNAEUS. 



,, Becker, COUCH, Trans. Linn. Soc. vol. xiv. p. 79. 



Pagrus vulgaris, Braize, FLEM. Brit. An. p. 211, sp. 137. 



Generic Characters. Four or six strong conical teeth in front, supported by 

 smaller conical teeth behind them, with two rows of rounded molar teeth on 

 each side of both jaws : the other characters as in the last genus Chrysophrys. 



THERE is considerable similarity in outward form between 

 the true Pagrus, the subject of the present article, and 

 Chrysophrys^ the fish last described ; but the red colour 

 of the Braize, and the circumstance of its possessing but two 

 rows of molar teeth, are sufficient to distinguish it. This 

 fish was originally well figured by Rondeletius, lib. v. c. 15; 

 but the number of the Pagri in the Mediterranean of a red 

 colour, has led to some confusion in the accounts of many of 

 the different authors since : neither Willughby nor Bloch 

 can be quoted with certainty, and Pennant refers in his 

 synonymes to both these authors, though they appear to 



