Clafs IV. TD Oe et ey 281 
The pupil of the eye is black, encircled with a 
{mall filvery line : the upper part of the iris is hazel ; 
the lower filvery. 
The form of the body is pretty thick, but the 
back not greatly elevated. The fcales are large and 
deciduous. 
The firft dorfal fin is placed near the middle of 
the back, and confifts of four ftrone fpines; the 
fecond of nine foft branching rays; the pectoral has 
fixteen, the ventral fix; the firft a ftrong fpine, the 
others foft. 
The tail is much forked. 
The color of the back is dufky, varied with blue 
and green: the fides filvery, marked with broad 
dufky parallel lines, reaching from head to tail: 
the belly is filvery. 
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