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in 1830, in the sixth volume of the Histoire Naturelle des 

 Poissons, he states, at page 319, that his fourth species, C. 

 griseus, then appears for the first time ; but it had been also 

 figured by Duhamel, under the name of Sarde grise. 



Of the genus Cantharus, biit one species, as far as I am 

 acquainted, appears on our coast ; but some attention is 

 necessary to the teeth of the different genera forming the 

 SparidiE of Cuvier. 



The Black Bream, — for by this name is this species known 

 along the Kentish and Sussex coasts, as well as in Devon- 

 shire, — though more rare than the Sea- Bream, Pagellus cen- 

 trodontus, is not an uncommon species. The Zoological 

 Society has received specimens from Madeira, sent by the 

 Rev. R. T. Lowe. It is taken at Dieppe, Boulogne, and 

 Calais : I have seen it at Dover and Hastings. Colonel 

 Montagu saw it in considerable abundance on the coast in 

 Devonshire, and Mr. Couch in Cornwall. They are taken 

 by the hook, and also by the net ; are most abundant in 

 July and August, but are not observed to grow so large as 

 the Sea Bream. Mr. Couch says, " it takes the common 

 baits which fishermen employ for other fish, but feeds much 

 on marine vegetables, upon which it becomes exceedingly fat." 

 It enters harbours, and is frequently taken by anglers from 

 rocks and pier-heads ; but he has never known it assemble in 

 shoals, and it is very rare to take the young of small size. 

 Of three examples obtained by myself in the London market, 

 the largest measures seventeen inches in length, and five 

 inches and a half in depth, exclusive of the dorsal fin. The 

 largest specimen recorded measured twenty inches in length. 

 The fin-rays are : — 



D. 11 + 12 : P. 16 : V. 1 + 5 : A. 3 + 10 : C. 17. 



From the upper and back part of the head two dark lines 



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