LUNULATED GILTHEAD. 
more than ten pounds; and is plentifully 
caught, in diiFerent parts of the Mediterra- 
nean, daring the summer months. 
It feeds principally on shell-fish, which it 
comminutes with it's teeth before it swallows 
them: and, though the flesh is reckoned ex- 
trem.ely coarse, it was much esteemed by the 
ancient Romans, when known to have fed on 
the Lucrine oyster. 
There are, at least, two more species of the 
Gilthead ; one called the Red, and the other the 
Toothed. The Red Gilthead is in size and 
shape very httle different from the Lunulated, 
but tlic whole body is of a red' colour: the 
Toothed Gilthead has, in the lower jaw, two 
rows of slender sharp teeth, and on each side 
a slender canine tooth ; the upper jaw has only 
a single row; and the colour of the back is 
black, the sides are som.ewhat lighter, and the 
belly is of a silvery brightness. This species 
is in several other respedls very diflcrent from 
the Lunulated Gilthead. 
