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ZOOLOGY. 



4. Echineis, Remora, or Sucking-Fish, Head furnished 

 with a flat^ ovate, transversely sulcated shield; body 

 without scales ; branchiostegous rays six. 



i. Coryphena. Coryphene. Jie«J suddenly sloping down- 

 wards ; gill-membrane five rayed ; dorsal Jin extend- 

 ing the whole length of the back. 



6. Macronrus. Immexset. Head and eyes large; body 



terminating in a long pointed tail. 



7. Gobius. GoEY. Head small ; eyes contiguous, with two 



punctures between them ; ventral fins united into the 

 form of a funnel ; gill-membrane five rayed. 



8. Gobiomorus, Characters as in the last genuSj excepting 



the ventral fins being distinct. 



9. Cottus. Bull-Head. Head large, flat, armed with sharp 



spines; eyes placed vertically; gill'membrane six 

 rayed ; body lengthened out at the extremity. 



10. Scorpoena. Head large, cirrous, aculeated, blunt, 

 without scales ; c^/e* approximated; teeth in the jaws, 

 palate and throat ; gill-membrane seven rayed ; dorsal 

 fin single, long, the anterior rays spinous. 



11. Zeus. Doree. iie«df compressed, sloping ; body diQQ^y 

 greatly compressed sideways ; first dorsal fin furnished 

 with long slender filaments issuing behind each ray of 

 the fin; ^-jYZ-wew&ra??^ seven rayed. 



