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SICILIAN SWORD FISH. Class IV. 



GENUS XXII. SWORD FISH. 



Jaw upper, extending to a great length, hard, 



slender, and pointed. 

 Teeth none. 



Rays branchiostegous seven. 

 Body slender. 



1. Sicilian. I 5.l<pla.$. Arist. Hist. an. lib. 



ii. c. 13. viii. c. IQ. Oppian 



Haiieut. lib. ii. 462. iii. 



442. 

 Xiphias. Ovid Haiieut. Q7. 

 Xiphias, i. e. Gladius. Plinii 



lib. xxxii. c 2.* 

 L' Heron de mer, ou grand 



Espadaz. Belon, 102. 

 Xiphias. Rondel. 251. 

 Xiphias, i. e. Gladius piscis. 



Gesner pise. 1049. Caii 



opusc. 104. 



Schwert fische. Schonevelde, 



35. Sword Fish. Wil. Ichth. 



l6l . Raii Syn. pise. 52. 

 Xiphias. Arted. Synon. 47. 

 Xiphias Gladius. Lin. Syst. 



432. Gm. Lin. 1 14g. 

 Swerd-fisk. Faun. Suec. No. 



303. 

 L'empereur. Block ichth. iii. 



23. tab. 76. 

 Le Xiphias espadon De la 



Cepede Hist, des Poissons. 



ii. 289. 



J_ HIS fish sometimes frequents our coasts, but 

 is much more common in the Mediterranean 

 sea, especially in the part that separates Italy 

 from Sicily, which has been long celebrated for 

 it : the promontory Pelorus,-\ now Capo di Faro, 



f Athenceus, 314. 



