FLYING FISH. 
Vh C Flying Fish, or Exocoetus of Ichthyo« 
Pgists, is a genus of fishes belonging to the 
rder of Soft-Finned Abdominal Fish. 
This curious fish has seldom been accurately 
igured: never, within our knowledge, till it 
vas drawn by the incomparably exa61; Edwards, 
ndeed, that celebrated naturalist observes, that 
' the Flying Fish has been described and fi- 
gured already, by a great number of voyagers 
md natural historians ; yet," says he, " I find 
10 figures so near. nature as I could wish to 
>ee them ; and therefore have endeavoured to 
make an improvement. The body, for shape 
and colour, pretty much resembles that of a 
Herring ; the eyes being larger, in proportion, 
and more rising. It has two pair of wings: 
the greater pair, a little behind the gills j and 
the lesser, about the region of the vent. The 
figure expresses their precise shape. They 
are of a thin, finny substance, variegated with 
I dark, dusky spots, on a light cinereous ground. 
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