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fai fin is fourteen-rayed. It inhabits India. It is faid 2 
make a kind of grunting noife when firft taken, owe 
the fudden Il ate of air from its branchial orifi 
CUL This is the triangular-bodied ean: fifh, 
with two fubcaudal {pines, and ten rays in the dorfal fin. 
which is ed with {pots 
7 are ahoten 
two rant pines and 
It is akon ten inches long; in the frout of the 
head there are two fhort pointed fpmes, direCted forwards ; 
above the naked part of the body, near the tail, is a long 
upright pointed {pine: the fhield is divided into hexagons, 
reaees od marked into triangular {paces. It is a native 
o 
Quanpricornus. Triangular, with two frontal and fub- 
Pane fines. It inhabits India and 
Turritus. This is nearly Guadeengelars - the eye-brows 
and back with a fingle fpine; the belly w ith four on each 
fide. Itinhabits the Red fea, and is ae inches long; the 
body tuberculate, yellowifh- ath, brown on the naked parts ; 
the bony coat is divided into hexagonal pieces, that are 
rough with numerous elevated dots, the futures pellucid ; 
the fhell of the belly very broad, flat, oval, tapering on the 
fore-part, and obtufe behind ; the back is convex, marginate 
at the fides; the middle is gibbous, compreffed, triangular, 
with an e-ett fhort {fpine, turned back ; the front is perpen- 
dicular, rounded, convex, depreffed beneath the eyes; the 
iris is golden 
Cornetus. Quadrangular-bodied trunk fifh, with two 
frontal and two fubcaudal {pines. The length oF this fith is 
about eight or ten inches; the thape is fquarifh; broad and 
abrupt wees the head, and Free bet the crcl towards 
3 the cruft or mai 
during the voyages of oo Cook, and a f{pecimen is pre- 
ferved in the Britifh 
TU, meee unarmed, with four 
dorfal tubercles. It abi India. 
1pBosus. Quadrangular, unarmed, gibbous. It inha- 
bits Atrica, and 1s thought to be a variety of O. triqueter 
a i «ribe 
Qra adrangular, unarmed; fides flattifh. 
refembles the O. triqueter, but has a fquare bo 
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Indian feas, and is faid to be an eraieat fifth for ne Pe 
and to be kent for that purpofe i in refervoirs, grow 0 fa- 
miliar as to come ata a a to the furface of hie water, 
and take he a from the 
ELE. . This is ewhat fquare; blackith, 
{peckled ean white. It cahebils the Southern ocean ; ; is 
from fix to eight inches long, and beautifully marked with 
almof innumerable white {pots, It is a native of the In- 
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dian feas, and was often aoa during captain Cook’s 
voyages about a coafte of New Holland, Otaheite, &c. 
: ae enumerated in Gmelin’s edition of 
1 now mention three others defcribed in 
NATUS 3 ‘Triangular bodied unarmed trunk-fifh, 
with whitifh concatenated varieg‘atio a abit of this 
into triangular. 
a 
abdomen of the fame colour the end of the body is brown ; 
It is a native of the American 
eas. 
Nasts ; Whitifh varigations "The hat trunk-fifh, with 
The aay 
lar ones radiatin from ‘the centre of the poe and thus 
elegantly dividing the whole into triangles, with finer lines 
or margins accompanying each; the naked or projecting 
part of the body, towards the tail, is marked with round 
black {pots; the fins and tail are of a i eegaauaaii It is 
anative of the Indian and American 
Striatus. Trunk-fith with i and blue ftripes, and 
a {pine over each eye, two on each fide the back and abdomen, 
and one on each fide the body. ‘This in fize and habit is 
very like the O. auritus ; the colour is a beautiful variation 
of bright blue and yellow, in the form of lines difpofed in 
different directions, but principally in a longitudinal one over 
the whole ; above each eye isa ftrong pine, as in the 
On the ridge of the back are two pair, difpofed 
{pectes ; and on each fide the abdomen there are 
preceding : or, it is ee the auritus may be in reality 
no other than the prefent animal changed in colour, from the 
circumftance of its having been oe preferved in {pirits of 
wi t was obferved by Capt. obin, about the coafts 
of Adventure bay, in an Diemen’s lan 
OSTRACISM, fens a kind of popular a Sei or 
condemnation among t thenians; being a é of 
anifhment againft im: asap too Page power rendered 
them fufpe&ted to the peop who rit and credit 
ave umbrage left y thould cap “fomething againft 
the a aa Tey, a pe their power degenerate into ty- 
- 
fo 
te = the denomination oftracifm, becaufe the people gave 
their votes, by writing the name of the perfon to be banifhed 
ina wae by the Greeks called oseaxe, and cafting the fhells 
into 
This ead of banifhment had penne infamous in it, as not 
pba Ld was held very ho- 
affembly of a people, whereby it was 
OSTRACITES, in Natural Hi Hiflory, a name given by 
authors to ihe fofile e oyfters, common in many partsof Eng- 
lan are of various fhapes and kinds ; and the name 
ferved in its native ftate and condition ; 
thofe found about Woolwich and Blackheath; and by 
4P2 . oth 
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