du Nord, this fifh is given as a fpecies of Labrus. * 



It feems very nearly allied to the fpecies which Mr. 

 Pennant in his Britifh Zoology has called the Striped 

 Wrafje. The genera of Sparus and Labrus are both 

 remarkable for the vivid colours which frequently a- 

 dorn the fpecies belonging to them. Moft of them 

 are natives of the extra-Britannic feas ; but the ftriped 

 WrafTeofMr. Pennant, to which this fifh is fo nearly 

 allied, has been fometimes caught on our own coafts. 

 Where the individual fpecimen was taken, from which 

 this figure was copied, and which is now in the Le- 

 verian Mufeum, I have not been able to learn ; but 

 there is reafon for fuppoiing it to be a Britifh fifh. 



It is reprefented about half the fize of the fpeci- 

 men itfelf. 



It is lingular that no fpecies either of Sparus or 

 Labrus has yet been figured in the fuperb Icthyology 

 of Dr. Bloch ; efpecially as there are not wanting nu- 

 merous figures of thefe fifh in the works of feveral 

 authors, from whom he might have copied them with 

 the fame eafe that he has done thofe of a great many 

 other fifhes introduced in the courfe of his Work. 



* And perhaps it is really rather a Labrus than a Sparus. 



