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GOLDEN-FINNED SPARUS. 



Spams Chrysopterus. S. fuscus, pinnis inferioribus flavis fusco- 

 maculatis. 



Brown Spams, with the lower fins yellow spotted with brown. 

 Perca chrysoptera. Lin, Gmel. Catesb. Car. 2. t. 2. 



Back gibbous : upper mandible longer than the 

 lower: ventral, anal, and caudal fins yellow spotted 

 with brown : tail erroneously represented as forked 

 in Catesby's plate. 



MEDITERRANEAN SPARUS. 



Spams Mediterraneus. S. viridis, supra lineam later alem striis 

 longitudinalibus obscuris, infra cceruleis, pinnis fulvis* 



Green Spams, marked above the lateral line with longitudinal 

 dusky stripes, below it with blue ones, and with fulvous 

 fins. 



Perca Mediterranea. Lin. Gmel 

 Native of the Mediterranean. 



VITTATED SPARUS. 



Spams Vittatus. S. lineis quinque transversis albis fuscisque. 

 Spams with five transverse equidistant brown and white linear 

 bands. 



Perca vittata. Lin. Gmel. 



Length about eight inches : teeth rather large : 

 native of the American seas. 



v. IV. P. II, 



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