PYED ACARAUNA. 
The Pyed Acarauna, we are told by Ed- 
i wards, who first figured this fish, is an inhabi- 
tant of the coasts of Brasil, and the islands 
called the West Indies. It is, he observes, of 
that genus which is denominated Acarauna, 
by Piso and Wilhighby, though of a different 
i species from any fish either of them have de- 
■ scribed. . 
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j Tliis fish, which was about five inches long, 
; s thus described by Edwards, 
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P ' It is pretty much compressed side-ways, 
I '.specially tov^ards the tail, the head being a 
ittie thicker. The mouth is small ; the teeth 
^ re long, and very slender ; the nostrils are 
laced near the eyes ; and the gills on each 
de have a sharp spur with a pe6-inated border. 
: has two fins on the sides behind the dills, 
^ id a pair of sm.aller ones on the belly. From 
sad to tail, it has a fin on the middle of the 
Lck, ending in an angle: it has, also, a sin- 
