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FOUR-HORNED TRUNK-FISH. 



spine pointing directly backwards : tail very large, 

 long, and of an oval shape : colour of the whole 

 animal yellow-brown, deeper beneath : tip of the 

 tail dusky. Native of the Indian and American 

 seas. 



THREE-HORNED TRUNK-FISH. 



Ostracion Tricornis. 0. trigoms, spinis frontalihus duabus, 



dorsali mica. Lin. Syst. Nat. 

 Triangular-bodied Trunk-Fish, with two frontal spines, and 



one on the back near the tail. 

 Ostracion triangulatus, aculeis duabus in, capite, & unico 



longiore superne ad caudam. Artedi, 



Length eight or ten inches : in front of the head 

 two short, pointed spines directed forwards : above 

 the naked part of the body, near the tail, a long, 

 upright, pointed spin^ : shield divided into hexa- 

 gons, each obscurely marked into triangular spaces : 

 native of the Indian seas. 



FOUR-HORNED TRUNK-FISH. 



Ostracion Quadricornis. 0. trigonus, spinis frontalihus suh^ 

 caudalihusque binis. Lin. Si/st» Nat. 



Triangular-bodied Trunk-Fish, with two frontal and two sub- 

 caudal spines, 



Ostracion triangularis, aculeis quatuor. Block, t. 134. 



Length twelve inches: shape subtrigonal; the 

 back, when viewed in profile, strongly arched, and 

 having a smooth outline: mail divided into large hex- 



