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^rmed Loricaria (Loricaria Catafracta). 

 Found in the American seas. 



Yelloxu Loricaria (Loricaria Flava), 



FISH. 



Slender Vistularia, or Trumpet-fish (Fistularia Ta- 

 bacaria). 



This very remarkable fish ig a nntivp of the Ame- 

 rican seas, and subsists on the smaller fishes, sea- 

 insects, and worms. 



Oceanic Flying-fish (Exocaetus Evolans), 

 The fishes of this genus, which are few in number, 

 are remarkable for the extreme length and size 

 of their pectoral fins, by which they are enabled to 

 spring from the water, and support a kind of tem- 

 porary flight or continued motion through the air, to 

 the distance of 2 or 300 feet ; when the fins become 

 dry, they are obliged to commit themselves to their 

 own element. The fish here described is ap inha- 

 bitant of the American and Indian seas, and is occa- 

 sionally observed in the Mediterranean. Pennant 

 records an instance of its being seen about the British 

 coasts. The celebrated Bonnet considered this spe- 

 cies of fish as forming a kind of connecting link be- 

 tween fishes and birds, similar to that which bats may 

 be supposed to form between birds and quadrupeds. 



