202 Obs. Pah Ava ie Clafs IV. 
fhaped like the fea bream. The length was three 
féet and an half; the breadth from back to belly 
almoft two feet; but the thicknefs from fide to fide 
not above fix inches. i 
The mouth {mall for the fize of the fifth, forming 
a {quare opening, and without any teeth in the 
jaws. The tongue thick, refembling that of a man, 
but rough and thick fet with beards or prickles, 
pointing backwards, fo that any thing might eafily 
pafs down, but could not eafily return back, there- 
fore thefe might ferve inftead of teeth to retain its 
prey *. ‘The eyes remarkably large, covered with a 
membrane, and fhining with a elare of gold. The 
cover of the gills like the falmon, | 
The body diminithes very {mall to the tail, which 
is forked, and expands twelve inches: the gill fins 
are broad, about eight inches long, and play hori- 
zontally: a little behind their iniertion the back fin 
takes its original, where it is about feven inches 
high, but flopes away very fuddenly, running down 
very near the tail, and at its termination becomes a 
little broader: the belly fins are very ftrong, and 
placed near the middle of the body: a narrow fin 
alfo runs from the anus to the tail. 
All the fins, and alfo the tail, are of a fine fcarlet; 
but the colours and beauty of the reft of the body, 
which is f{mooth and covered with almoft impercep- 
ticle fcales, beggars all defcription ; the upper part 
being a kind of bright green, variegated with whi- 
* The writer omitted the defcription of the tongue and its 
fetaceous teeth, which we fupply from the 7; ranfactions. 
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