282, FLUYING FISH chen 
Genus XX XIX. Head covered with feast 
Pectoral. fins almoft as long as 
the body. 
Fryinc Fis. 
Erde er DYE NG Fs ee 
Hirundo Plinii Lb. ix. c. 26. Mueil alatus. Rowdel. 267. Ge/- 
™E€oxorros var "Adwuis ? ner pif. 553- Wile Icth. 233. 
Athenaeus. lib, viii. 332. Op- Exocatus, Arted. fynon. 18 
pian Aalieut. iif S7 HK EALOYE Eee volitans. E. abdo- 
Obpian He peo: Awirt mine utrinque carinato. Lin, 
RotiinenWelecad 16 Sift. 520+ Aman. Acad.\. 603. 
Hirondelle de mer. Belon, 189. Gronte., Lon. Na ae 
\ FE, can produce but a fingle inftance of this 
{pecies** being taken on the Briti/h coafts. 
In Fune 1765, one was caught at a {mall diftance be- 
low Caermarthen, in the river Jowy, being brought 
up by the tide which flows as far as the town. It 
is a fifh frequent enough in the Mediterranean, and 
alfo in the ocean, where it leads a moft miferable 
life. In its own element it is perpetually haraffed 
by the Dorados, and other fifh of prey. If it en- 
deavors to avoid them by having recourfe to the 
air, it either meets its fate from the Gulls, or the 
Albatrofs, or is forced down again into the mouth of 
* Pliny mentions it under the fame name, /d. ix. ¢. 19. 
** This fifh was feen by Fohn Strange, Efq; at Caermarthen, 
who was fo obliging as to communicate to me the account of 
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