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TRICOLOR CHiETODON. 



Chsetodon Tricolor. C. ant ice flavus, postice niger, cauda 



marginibusque pinnarum rubris. 

 Yellow Chaetodon with the hind-part black, the tail and fins 



bordered with red. 

 Chaetodon tricolor. Block, t. 425, 



A highly superb species, and remarkable for the 

 singular disposition of its colours: general shape 

 resembling that of the golden, angel, and ciliated 

 Chaetodons, but longer in proportion : colour of 

 the fore-part golden-yellow, of the hind-part, ex- 

 cept the tail, jet-black, the two colours abruptly 

 separated, in an oblique direction : edges of the 

 gill-covers and of all the fins bright red : tail yellow, 

 growing red towards the end, and terminating in 

 pretty long tips, but not deeply divided in the 

 middle : scales rather large : falcatures of the 

 dorsal and anal fin not reaching to the tips of the 

 tail : at the gill-covers a very large, long spine : 

 mouth surrounded by a black zone. Native of the 

 Indian and American seas : length about a foot. 



