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hard spine-finned fish (acanthopterygians) their lip- 
name.* ‘Ihe flesh is most delicious, but its fullness 
end firmness, make it good for drying and smoking, 
when too large for one day’s dish. 
The macrurous decapods of the genus Seyllarous 
seem’ to me more common at Port Royal than else- 
where. ‘Fhe singular conformation of the external 
antennas distinguish them; but their broad flat square 
shape, their eyes situate far away from the mediar 
lme, near to the angle of the large square carapace, 
the abdomen thick, and nearly equal in all its rings, 
terminating in a great fan-shaped fin, with soft and 
flexible foliations, are particularly noticeable. Our 
Scyllarus is the equinoxialis. Dumpy as it seems, 
it is the longest of the three genera of ScyHarians , 
—Scyllarus, Thenus, and Ibacus. 
Inthe midst of the difficulties that interpose at 
Port Royal to poultry keeping, why do not the peo- 
ple have recourse to pigeons? ‘ Rocky and pre- 
cipitous cliffs, particularly those of the sea coast, 
perforated by caverns, either originating in the 
nature of the rock itself, or worn and hallowed out 

* Celui des labres reunit les especes 4 levres grandes, 
charnues et comme doubles. * * * * Tous-es pois: 
sons se nourissent de petits coquillages, d’oursins, de crus- 
tacés, dont ils peuvent facilement briser !’enveloppe dure 
et solide, par l’action de leurs pharyngiens fortement 
dentis. ls vivent reunis, sans former des troupes nom~ 
breuses, sur les cotés rocheuses, @ l’abri des mouvemens 
violens des vagues.—Cuv. & Valen. Hist. Nat. des pcis- 
sons, tome xii. livre xvi. cb. 1. 
