200 LESSER SEA BREAM. Clafs IV, 
I. fhe. BESSER (SHA eR BAe 
Brama marina cauda forcipata D. Fonflon, Raii fn pile. 115« 
HIS fpecies was communicated to Mr. Ray 
by his friend Mr. Foujlon, a York/bire gentle- 
man, who informed him it was found on the fands 
near the mouth of the Tees, Sept. 18, 1681. 
It was a deep fifh, formed like a roch, twenty- 
fix inches long, ten broad, and grew very flender to- 
wards the tail. 
The eyes large, like thofe of quadrupeds. In 
the lower jaw were two rows of teeth, in the upper 
a fingle row of {mall ones. The aperture of the gills 
very large, and like thofe of a falmon: the body 
{caly. 
In the middle of the back was one fin extending 
almoft to the tail; behind the vent another. 
The back black; the fides of a brighter color 3 
the belly quite of a filvery brightneds. 
Genus 
