Class IV. 



FLYING FISH. 



333 



Head covered with fcales. 



Pedoral fins almoft as long as the body. 



XXXVIII. 



FLYING 



FISH, 



Hirundo Plinii lib. IX. f. 26. 



naus lib. VIII. 332, Op- 

 pan Halieut. I. 157. 

 %zXi^ccv ? Oppian II. 459. 



Rondine. Sal'vian, 186. 



Hirondelle de mer. Belofz, 189. 



Mugil alatus. Rondel, 267. 



Gefner pifc, 553. Wil. Icth. 1 59. Wing- 



233- 



Exoc^tus. Arted. fynon. 18. 



Exocsetus volitans. E. abdo- 

 mine utrinque carinato, 

 Lin.Jyfi, 520. Amcsn. Acad, 

 I. 603. Grono^, Zcoph, 

 No. 359. 



ED. 



W'^E can produce but a fingle inflance of this 

 fpeciesf being taken on the Brittjh coafts. 

 In June 1765, one was caught at a fmall diflance 

 below Caermarthen^ in the river Tiowy^ being 

 brought up by the tide which flows as far as the 

 town. It is a fifh frequent enough in the Medi- 

 terranean^ and alfo in the ocean, where it leads a 

 moft miferable life. In its own element it is per- 

 petually harafled by the Dorados^ and other fifh of 

 prey. If it endeavors to avoid them by having re- 

 courfe to the air, it either meets its fate from the 



* Pliny mentions it under the fame name, lib. IX. c, 19. 



f This fifh was feen by John Strange, Efq; at Caermart-benf 



who was fo obliging as to communicate to me the account of 



Gulls, 



