Class IV. RED GILT-HEAD. 329 



consist of seventeen soft rays ; the ventral of six 

 rays, the first of which is very strong and spiny; 

 the anal fin of fourteen; the three first spiny; 

 the tail is much forked. 



This fish takes its name from its predominant 

 color ; that of the forehead and sides being as if 

 gilt, but the last is marked lengthways with 

 numbers of bright lines. 



Pagur? Ovid. Halieut. 107 . in sinum producta. Arled. 2. Red. 



Le Pagrus. Belon 245. Synon. 64. 



Pagrus. Rondel. 142. Gesner Spams Pagrus. Lin. Syst. 46q. 



pise. 606. Gm. Lin. 1273. 



Sea Bream. Wil. ichth. 312. Le Pagre. Block ichth. viii* 



Raii Syn. pise. 131. 50. tab. 26'7- 



Spams rubescens, cute ad ra- JDe la Cepede Hist, des Pois- 



dicem pinnarum dorsi et ani sons, iv. 93. 



J-HIS species grows to a size equal with that Descri?- 



of the former; its shape is much the same. 



The irides are silvery ; the inside of the covers 



of the gills, the mouth, and the tongue, are of a 



fine red ; the teeth small and pointed. At the 



base of the pectoral fins is a ferruginous spot. 



What is peculiar to this species is, that the skin 



at the end of the dorsal and anal fins is gathered 



up, and hides the last rays ; the scales are large ; 



the tail forked. The color of the whole body 



is red. 



