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3. Green-striped Silver side. {Atherina viridescens.) With large 

 head, bright eyes, and a dark green line from head to tail, over the 

 white stripe, and parallel with it. 



Lives in the salt water with the other killifish, sticklebacks, and 

 shrimps. Is exceedingly small, very delicate, and semi-transparent. 

 A greenish line runs lengthwise from the gill-opening to the tail, in con- 

 tact with a white riband. Back and tail transparent. 



Mouth small. Head big. Eyes lateral, spacious, and bright yellow- 

 ish white. One dorsal fin. Ventral fins on the abdomen, and pretty 

 far back. No teeth. Belly silvery and opaque. 



Length scarcely more than an inch ; and shape remarkably slender 

 from the head. 



MUG1L. MULLET. 



Generic character. 



Lips membranaceous ; the inferior carinated within. Teeth none, 

 At the corners of the mouth an inflected callus. Gill membrane with 

 six curved rays. Body fleshy. Scales large. Dorsal fins two. 



New-York Mullet. (Mugil albula.) Pale whitish colour, with four 

 rays in the first dorsal fin. 



Head compounded of flat, square, and blunt. 



Lips thin, soft, and having edges like minute teeth ; but which are 

 destitute of hardness when felt. 



Lower jaw shorter. Body chubby and round. 



Rows of distinguishable scales arranged around the whole circuit of 

 the boJy, having a distant resemblance to stripes. The colours pale 

 brown, alternated with dirty white. 



Pectoral fins high on the thorax. Twelve or thirteen rows of scales 

 on a side. Lateral line obscure among them. 



