Class IV. O B L O N G C I O D O N. 129- 



A very deep body, and as if cut off in the middle. IX. 



Mouth fmall. 



Two teeth only in each jaw. 



ISun-Fifli from Mount's-Bay. Oftracion lasvis. Grono'v, 54* Oblong. 

 Borlafe Corn^jjall, 268. tah, Zooph. No. 185. 



26. fig. 7. 



jnONDELETIUSh^%g\vtn this genus the fy- 

 ■^^ nonym of Orthragorifcus^ as if it was that 

 which Pliny * intended by the fame name ; but 

 the account left us by that naturalift is fo brief, 

 that we do not think ourfelves authorized to place 

 it as a fynonymous creature. He fays no more 

 than that it was the greateft of fifh, -and that it 

 grunted when it was firft taken, from which pro- 

 bably rofe the name, for according to Athenaus^ 

 o^^ayoDfjK^ -j- was that given to a young pig. 

 We are inclined to believe, that this fifh had 

 cfcaped the notice of Pliny^ otherwife he mull have 

 unavoidably made fome remark on its flriking 

 figure. 



This fifh grows to a great bulk : that which ^^^^• 

 was examined by Sahianus'^ was above a hun- 



* Z/^. XXXII. c. 2. 

 f Li^. IV. p. 140. 



: H^fi. Fife, 155. 



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