PERCH. . 131 



Strange as it appearSj the Japanefe epicures v/ill not deny themfelves a 

 difh they efteem fo delicate, fatal as the efFeds are from negleft in 

 the dredlng. The good emperor only prohibits his officers and fol- 

 diers fj-om touching this food : the reft of his fubjefls^ he gracioufly 

 permits to run the rifque with impunity*. 



Catejby, ii. 6.— P. formofa, Lm. 48$. , .j^ Grunt. 



■p With the head elegantly ftriped lengthways with blue and yellow : 

 mouth rifing upwards : body covered with large brown fcales, 

 prettily edged with yellow: lateral line marked by lefler fcales: tail 

 much forked : dorfal fins united. Length about one foot. 



P. ftrlata, Lin. 487. ,^,_ StraTeb. 



With dorfal fins united : tail forked : fecond ray of the anal fin 

 very ftrong : body ftriated. 

 Inhabits North America. That in M. de Geer's Mujeum differs only Place. 



from the Fersa Melanurus of the Mediterranearit by its tail not being 

 black. , 



P. trifurca, Lin. 489. 143. Trifwr- 



CATED. 



P With the head moft beautifully varied : dorfal fins united : tlie 

 * body furrounded by feven caerulean bands : third and fourth rays 



of the dorfal fins fpinous, and lengthened by a cetaceous filanaent, 



long as the fpine itfelf : the tail is moft Angularly trifurcated. 



Inhabits the feas of Gjro/wa.—Doftor Garden* Place. 



* Kampfir,Hifi. Japan, \. 111,. 



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