SQUARE DORY. 2QI 



A third specimen was caught at Brixham in 

 Torbay in 1772. It weighed an hundred and forty 

 pounds, and measured in length four feet and a 

 half, and in breadth two feet and a quarter : its 

 greatest thickness was only four inches, and the 

 general colour was a vivid transparent scarlet 

 varnish over burnished gold, bespangled with oval 

 silver spots of various sizes : the breast appeared 

 like a hard bone, resembling the keel of a ship : the 

 flesh is said to have resembled beef, both in colour 

 and taste. 



In the British Museum is a dried specimen of 

 this fish, measuring in length about three feet five 

 inches, from the tip of the snout to the tips of the 

 tail, and in breadth about one foot seven inches in 

 the broadest part. 



The elegant figure of the Opah, given in the 

 Philosophical Transactions, is repeated in the pre- 

 sent work. 



SQUARE DORY. 



Zeus Quadratus. Z. cauda cequali, corpore cinereo transvemm 

 nigroque fasciato. Lin. Syst. Nat, Gmel. p. 1225. 



Grey Dory with transverse dusky bars, and even tail. 



Faber marinus fere quadratus. SLoane Jam. 2. p. 2QQ. t. 251. 

 /.*. 



" This fish (says Sir Hans Sloan in his Natural 

 History of Jamaica) was almost square, with the 

 fins : it was five inches long, anjd four broad where 

 broadest in the middle, and decreased from thence 



