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Class IV. 



G I L T^H E A D.* 



XXV. 

 GILT- 

 HEAD. 



Covers of the gills fcaly. 



Five branchioftegous rays. 



Fore teeth iharp. 



Grinders flat. 



One dorfal fin, reaching the whole length of the 



back. 

 Forked tail. 



112. LUNU- 

 LATED, 



"K^ua-c^^v;. Oppian Halieut, 



1. 169. 

 Chryfopiirys. O^id Halieut ^ 



IIL 

 Aurata Plinii, Lib.lX. c. 16. 

 La Dorade. Belon, 186. 



Ch ryfophry C«zV o/ia/2-. 112. 

 Aurata. RondeL 115. Gejner 



plfc, 110. 112. 



Gilt-head or Gilt-polL WiL 

 Icth. 307. Raiijyn,pi/c. 131, 



Sparus dorfo acutiffimo, linea 

 arcuata inter oculos. Arted. 

 fyno7z. 6^. 



Sparus lunula aurea inter ocu- 

 los. Lin.-fyfl. 467. Gro- 

 nou, Zooph* No. 220. 



THIS is one of the pifces famtiles^ or fifh 

 that haunt deep waters on bold rocky 

 fhores : thole that form this genus, as well as the 

 following, feed chiefly on fhell fifh, which they 

 comminute with their teeth before they fwallow; 

 the teeth of this genus in particular being extreme- 

 ly well adapted for that purpofe, the grinders be- 

 ing flat and ftrong, like thofe of certain quadru- 

 peds : befides thofe are certain bones in the low- 

 er part of the mouth, which affift in grinding their 

 food. 



They 



