CAT-FISH. 
The Cat Fish, or Greater Cat Fish, as it is 
called by Edwards, is the Catulus Major Vul- 
garis^ of Willughby ; and the Chsetodon, or 
Cat Fish, of Linnaeus, and most other natu- 
ralists. 
This fish belongs to the order of prickly- 
finned thoracic fishes. Edwards calls it a 
cartilaginous fish ; but Goldsmith, following 
the improved system of Mr. Gouan, ranks it 
with what, he says, are more properly deno- 
minated the spinous classes of fishes. 
■ In the annexed figure, this fish, which grows 
frequently to a very large size, and is thought 
by many to be a species of the Shark, is re- 
presented as it appears while coming from the 
egg, or spawn, in size, form, and colour : the 
navel-string, by which the embrio animal is ori- 
ginally attached, being apparent beneath the 
throat or fore-part of the fish, tliough the 
shell, or coveiing, in general, still adheres. 
This 
