Class IV. WINGED FLYING FISH. 441 



GENUS XLVI. FLYING FISH. 



Head covered with scales. 



Fins pectoral almost as long as the body. 



Hirundo. Plinii lib. ix. c. 26. Exocaetus. Arted. Synon. 18. 1. Winged. 



*E%oxoito$ xcci''ASu>vi;'} A- Exocastus volitans. E. abdo- 



thenceus lib. viii. 332. mine utrinque carinato. 



Oppian. Halieut. i. 157- Lin. Syst. 520. Gm. Lin. 



%eA<Swv? Oppian ii. 459. 13 99- Amain. Acad. i. 603. 



Rondine. Salvian, 186. Gronov. Zooph. No. 35Q. 



Hirondelle de mer. Belon, Le Poisson volant. Block ichth. 



jgq^ xii. 9. tab. 348. 



Mugil alatus. Rondel. 267. L'Exocet volant. De la Ce- 



Gesner pise. 553. JVil. P ede Hist, des Poissons, v. 



Ichth. 233. 402. 



VV E can produce but a single instance of this 

 species t being taken on the British coasts. In 

 June 1765, one was caught at a small distance 

 below Caermarthen, in the river Towy, being 

 brought up by the tide which flows as far as the 

 town. It is a fish frequent enough in the 

 Mediterranean, and also in the ocean, where 



* Pliny mentions it under the same name, lib. ix. c.19. 

 t This fish was seen by John Strange Esq. at Caermarthen, 

 who was so obliging as to communicate to me the account of it. 



