loS B A L I S T E S, 



IX. BALI5TES. Head comprefTed, fmall. 



Eight teeth on each fide ? the two foremofl the longeft, 

 A narrow aperture or (lit above the peftoral fins. 

 Skin rough, fcales adhering tightly to it. Linn^us, 



72, Unicorn,^ Bahama Unicorn fiih, Catejby,n. \^. 



Baliftes monoceros, Lin. 404. 



T? With an oblong body, fufiform, or thickeft in the middle; 

 two fharp teeth in the upper, and four in the lower jaw, ifluing 

 from the folid bone, covered with a thin fkin : irides pale, encircled with 

 blue : jufl beyond the eyes, on the back, is a ftrong fharp and long fpine, 

 to be ere£ted or deprelTed at pleafure ; reaching, when down, to the dorfal 

 fin : color, brown olive, with irregular waving lines of blue, intermixed 

 with fpots of black. Grows to the length of three feet. 

 Place, Frequent among the coralline rocks of the Bahama ifles : feeds on the 



corallmm forofum, and other coralline fubftances, and on fhells, which 

 it grinds fmall. Efteemed poifonous. 



7J.0ld. Old wife, Catejby,\\. 22. 



Baliftes vetula, Lin, 406. 



With a deep body ; fuddenly leflening near the tail : mouth pro- 

 jefting, furnilhed with about twelve long teeth : firfl: dorfal fin has 

 three rays> or fharp bony pmes : the firft ray of the fecond, very long : 

 firft ray of the ventral fin fpiny : tail lunated, with the exterior ray on. 

 each fide of a vaft length : mouth furrounded with rich blue : two in- 

 curvated lines of blue extend from it towards the breafl: : fecond dorfal 

 fin, anal, and tail, dulky, edged with fine blue : body brown, with fix 

 dufky lines from the back down the fides. Of the length of about 

 two feet. 



Swims flowly. Is good meat when the rough fkin is taken off. 



Caper, 



