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SPECKLED TRUNK-FISTH. 



pose in reservoirs, growing, according to Renarcl, so 

 familiar as to come at a given signal to the surface 

 of the water, and take its food from the hand. 



SPECKLED TRUNK-FISH. 



Ostracion Meleagris. 0. tetragoms, nigro-fuscus, albo-pmic- 

 iatus. 



Quadrangular bodied blackish-brown Trunk-Fish^ speckled 



with white. 



Ostracion Meleagris, Nat. Misc. f. t. 253. 



Length from six to eight inches : habit similar 

 to that of the O. cuhicus, being of the same square 

 shape : mail divided into hexagons, and of a deep 

 blackish chesnut-colour, each division being marked 

 with numerous, small, white spots : naked or pro- 

 jecting part of the body marked in the same man- 

 ner: fins and tail whitish, with chesnut-coloured 

 rays : eyes white : native of the Indian seas : ob- 

 served during Captain Cook*s voyages about the 

 coasts of New-Holland_, Otaheitee, &c. 



