coaft of Devonfbire in May, and retires about No= 
vember. 
The head fteep : the nofe blunt : the body thick ; 
the mouth fall: the lower jaw furnifhed with very 
fmall teeth: in the. roof of the mouth is a rough 
hard fpace: at the entrance of the gullet above is a 
fingle bone, and beneath are a pair, each with echi- 
“eee furfaces, that help to comminute the food be- 
fore it pales down. . 
From the chin hung two beards, two inches and 
an half lone. 
The eyes large: the irides purple: the head and 
covers of the gills very fcaly. 
The firft dorfal fin was lodged in a deep furrow, 
and confifted of. fix ftrong, but flexible rays; the 
fecond of eight; the pectoral fins of fixteen; the 
ventral of fix branched rays; the anal of feven: 
the tail is much forked. 
The body very thick, and covered with large 
{cales; beneath them the color was a moft beautiful 
rofy red*; the changes of which, under the thin fcales, 
gave that entertainment to the Roman epicures as 
above mentioned: the fcales on the back and fides 
were of a dirty orange; thofe on the nofe a bright 
yellow: the tail a reddifh yellow. 
The fides were marked lengthways with two lines 
of a light yellow color: thefe with the red color of 
the dorfal fins, and the number of their rays, Mr. 
Ray makes the character of the Corni/b Surmullet + 
thefe are notes fo liable to vary by accident, that till 
* This color is moft vivid during fummer. 
we 
