WRASSE. ^125 



Catejby, Appmd. xxxiii.— L. Cromis, Lin. 479. — Guatucupu, Marcgrave, 177. !24. Drum, 



"lA/^R. Of a filvery eolor, marked crofsways with dufky bands : on 

 the gill covers a fingle fpine: dorfal fin appears like two, uni- 

 ting midway : firft ray-of the anal fin fhort and rigid j the fecond great> 

 thick, and comprefTed. — Communicated to Linn^us by Doftor 

 Garden. 



Cate/by and Law/on mention both red and black Drums : the firft 

 fays they are as large as Cod Fifli. The red bite in the day-time ea- 

 gerly at a hook ; and are reckoned excellent, efpecially the head. 

 Numbers are faked and fent in barrels to the ^Feji Indies. 



In the night the inhabitants refort in their canoes to the bays and 

 large rivers, and by the light of a fire kill great numbers by harpoon- 

 ing them. ' . 



Extends to BraJL Pxaci, 



Catefy/,u. 10. fig. 2. — L. Flavus, iia. 479. 325, Yellow. 



\^R. Wholly of a reddifli color u (lender form : nofe fmooth, pro- 

 jedlile : three long teeth in the end of the upper mandible : a 

 blue ftripe from the fide of the head to the corner of the mouth : tail 

 rounded at the end. Grows to the length of a foot, Placs. 



Carolina? 



Mormyrus ex cjnereo nigricans .—-Bone Fifh, C«/^, ii. F3, 126. Bone, 



\\7'R. Of rather flender ihape : white irides : back dufky brown %■ 

 belly white : tail much forked : nofe flightly convex. 

 Found in plenty about the Bahama ifles. Place, 



Gre*i; 



