244 PEOSE HALIETITICS. 



several species of well-known Indian fish. This writer 

 appears to us to include three distinct genera in his two- 

 fold division of 'air' and fossil fish; viz. such^ first, as 

 are amphibious ; secondly, such as are confined to river- 

 banks ; and thirdly (the most wonderful of any), those 

 that, earth-born and earth-bred, come only, worm-like, 

 to the surface when the groiind is saturated with mois- 

 ture. Among these, there can be little doubt that the 

 fish he speaks of as found about Babylon, and co-exten- 

 sive with the area covered by the overflowings of Eu- 

 phrates, which when the river returns to its bed 'be- 

 gia to come forthe for food and releife, going upon their 

 finnes in lieu of feet, and wagging their tails ever as they 

 goe,' are closely allied to the Indian anabas : as little 

 doubtful is it that those individuals which, like Mr. Bu- 

 chanan's barca, make their ' holes in the banks of rivers, 

 burrowing deep when they are dry, and coming forth 

 from their hiding-places as do serpents,' must be mem- 

 bers of the modern subgenus ophiocephalus, or snake- 

 heads ; and the existence of the third race of fish, eaten 

 by the Paphlagonians, who disinter them at great depths, 

 and far fi-om any spring of water, is, as we have seen, 

 vouched for by too many respectable writers to be any 

 longer doubted. 



MUGILS. 



OirroKeos 6' elo'rjXde neXaypios linroTa KeiXTpevs' 

 OVK oioSt dfia Ta ye SuwSeKa aapyoi ewovTO. 



Matron. Parod. 



As the Mediterranean has its red, it has a so-called 

 grey mullet of its own, the mugil cephalus, which is the 

 largest and finest of many species ; the fish frequently 

 served at Italian tables d'hote under the names ramado 

 (Nice), cefalu capuzzone (Naples), is our common grey 

 mullet, the mugil capito of Cuvier. This ramado seldom 

 reaches much above half the usual weight of a full-grown 



