COMMON DOREE. 



Class IV. 



GENUS XXXI. DOREE. 



Body very deep and compressed sideways. 

 Filaments very long issuing from the first 



dorsal fin. 

 Rays branchiostegous, seven. 



1. Common. Xaky.£v$- J then. lib. vii. 328. 



Oppian Halieut. i. 133. 

 Faber? Ovid Halieut. 110. 



Zeus idem Faber Gadibus. 



Plin. lib. ix. c. 18. 

 La Doree. Belon, 146. 

 Faber sive Gallus marinus. 



Rondel. 328. Gesntr pise. 



36g. 

 A Doree. JVil. Ichth- 2g4. 



Raii syn. pise. gy. 

 Zeus ventre aculeuto, cauda 



inextremo circinato. Ailed. 



synon. 78. 

 Zeus Faber. Z- cauda rotun- 



data, lateribus mediis oeello 



fusco, pinnis analibus dua- 



bus. Lin. syst. 454. Gm. 



Lin: 1223. Gronov. Zooph. 



No. 311. 

 Zeus spinosus. Mus. Fred. 



Ad. 67. tab. xxxi. 

 La Doree. Duhamcl Tr. des 



Peschcs, iii. 85. sect. L. tab. 



La Doree. Block ichth. ii. 23. 



tab. 41. 

 Le Zee forge ron. De la Ce~ 



pede Hist, des Poissons, iv. 



577- 



SUPERSTITION hath made the Doree rival 

 to the Hadock, for the honor of having been the 

 fish out of whose mouth St. Peter took the tri- 

 bute-money, leaving on its sides those incon- 

 testable proofs of the identity of the fish, the 

 marks of his finger and thumb. It is rather 



