EXOCOETUS. FLYING-FISH. 



Generic Character, 



Caput squamosum : maxiilis 

 utroque latere connexis. 



Membr : branch : radiis de- 

 cern. 



Pinriie pectorales maximse, 

 voJatiles. 



Head scaly : connected on 



each side. 

 Gill-memhrajie ten-l'ayed. 



Pectoral fins very large^ 

 giving the power of flight. 



MEDITERRANEAN FLYING-FISH. 



Exocoetus Exiliens. E. argenteus, dorso sulfusco, p'umis vent- 



ralibus pone medium 'ahdommis. 

 Silvery Flying-Fish, with brownish back, and ventral fins 



situated beyond the middle of the abdomen. 

 Exocoetus exiliens. E. pinnis ventralibus caudam attiigentibus. 



Lin, GmeLp. 1400. 

 Exocoetus pinnis ventralibus elongatis prope anum. Block, t. 



397. 



Hirundo Plinii. Aldrov. p. 144. 



Eondine. Salv.p.l85. Mugil alatus. Roiidel Will. S^c, 



The fishes of this genus, which are very few in 

 number, are remarkable for the extreme length 

 and size of their pectoral fins, by which they are 

 enabled to spring occasionally from the water, and 

 to support a kind of temporary flight or continued 

 motion through the air, to the distance of two or 

 three hundred feet, when, the fms becoming dry. 



