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XXVI. GILT- Br. Zool. iii. p. 240. Genus XXV. 



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!I3. Snapper. Catejby, ii. 17. — Sparus fynagris, Lin. ^yo. 



t^ With large eyes, and red irides : body taper, purple above and 

 lighter below, elegantly marked lengthways with narrow yellow 

 ftripes : pedoral fins purple : tail red : the other fins yellow. Grows 

 to the length of a foot. 



114. Pork. Catejby, ii. 4. — Sp. rhomboides, Lin. 470. 



/"^ Of a rhomboid form : yellow irides : whole body covered with 

 large fcales of a deep grey color, and yellow, placed in alternate 

 rows, forming longitudinal ftripes : fins and tail yellow : firfl: ray of 

 the anal is a very ftrong fharp fpine. 

 Place. Found off the ^i^i'fl^^/? ifles, and reckoned a, delicate fpecies. 



IJ5. PORGY. Catejby, ii. j5. — Sp. chryfops, Lin, /^Jl. 



/^ With yellow irides : large mouth : in the upper mandible one 

 tooth before : in the lower two : body of a deep form, and brOwn, 

 lighteft on the belly : covers of the gills, peftoral, ventral, and anal fins,, 

 light blue. 



n6. Silver. Sp. Argyrops, Lin. 471. — Zanthurus indlcus. Wit. iBh. App. 3. 



r^ With filvery irides : fore teeth conic : an oblong finus in the back ; 

 tail lunated : three firfl: rays of the dorfal fin extending far, aad 

 filiform. 

 Place. Inhabits Jamaka and Carolina.-^Dodot Garden. 



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