435 



GREY MULLET. 



Class IV. 



GENUS XLV. MULLET. 



Body and covers of the trills clothed with large 



scales. 

 Rays branchiostegous six incurvated. 

 Teeth on the tongue and in the palate only. 



1. Grey. 



KstpccXos, Kstrtgev;. Arist. 



Hist. an. lib. v. c. 11, &c. 

 KsTt^suf. Oppian. Halieut. 



iii. 98. Athcnoeus, lib. vii. 



306. 

 Mugil Ovid. Halieut. 37. Pli- 



nii lib. ix. c. 8. 17- 

 Cephalo. Salman, 75. 

 Le Mulet. Belon, 205. 

 Cephalus. Rondel. 260. Ges- 



nerpisc. 549. 

 Mullet. Will. IcJith. 274. Raii 



syn. pise. 84. 

 Mugil. Arted. Synon. 52. 



Mugil Cephalus. M. pinna 



tlorsali anteriore quinque ra- 



diata. Lin. Syst. 520. Gm. 



Lin. 1397. Gronov. Zooph. 



No. 397. 

 Le Mulet. Duhamel Tr. des 



Pesches, iii. 143. sect. 6. 



tab. 2. fg. 3. 

 Le Mulet. Block ichth. xi. 



129. tab. 394. 

 Le Muge cephale. De la Ce- 



pede Hist, des Poissons, iii. 



386. 



JlHE mullet is justly ranked by Aristotle 

 among the Pisces Littorales, or those that 

 prefer the shores to the full sea : they are found 

 in great plenty on several of the sandy coasts of 

 our island, and haunt in particular those small 

 bays that have influxes of fresh water. They 



