ANGEL FISH. 
Tins beautiful fish was deposited by the 
late Capt. Cook, in the Leveiian Museum; 
having been thus named by that great circum- 
navigator, who had caught it during one of 
his voyages to the South Seas. 
Though the figure, which is accurately 
dehncated, will afford a better idea than any 
description, it may not be improper to observe, 
that the body of this fish, which is about 
fourteen inches long, and ten wide, is wholly 
of a very dark olive green ; except the centre, 
whicli is of a deep yellow. The tail, as well 
as the small fins behind the gills, is of a deep 
orange red, tipped with yellow ; and tlie larger 
fins, the biggest of which is on the back, are 
of a dark olive green, similar to that of the 
body. 
The appellation of the Angel Fish has been 
given by many naturalists to a very different 
species, the Sonatina of Pliny, and known 
also 
