100 OBLONG SUN FISH. Clas Iv. 
the nofe to the vent, is flat; on the back, not re- 
mote from the tail, is a fingle fin. It has befides 
two pectoral fins, two ventral and one anal fin. 
The tail is bifurcated, but the upper part much 
longer than the lower. _ | 
The upper part of the body is of a dirty olive 
color : the lower part filvery; the middle of the © 
tubercles white. 
'* Jn the manner of breeding it is an exception 
among the cartilaginous fifh, being like the bony 
fith oviparous, {pawning in winter. 
Genus IX. Avery deep body, and as if cut of 
in the middle. 
Mouth {mall. 
Two teeth only in each jaw. 
Sun-Fisu. 
I. “Fhe "O'BLON CSUN Poe 
Sun-Fifh from Mount’s-Bay. Oftracion levis. Gronov. Zooph. 
Borlafe Cornwall, 268. tad. No. 185. 
26. fiz» 7. 
RONBEEAL LES has given this genus the 
fynonym of Ortbragorifcus, 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 
* Lib. Xxxll. c. 26 
