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XXX. A Letter to the Rev, M. Lort, B. D, 
F. R. S. contammg an Account of a fingu- 
lar Fijh,^ from the South Seas, by the 
Rev, Mr, Michael Tyfon. 
Reverend Sir, 
Read May 9 > ^ | H E Rev. Mr. Farmer, Fellow of 
1771- Jl^ Emanuel college, Cambridge, very 
obligingly lent me a curious fifh, preferved in fpirits, 
which was brought by his relation Commodore 
Byron, from the new-difcovered iflands in the South 
Sea. As I have the greatell; reafon to believe that it 
has never been figured or defcribed by any author, and 
indeed never before feen in Europe j I have taken 
the liberty to fend you the following defcription and 
drawing of it (Tab. VII. fig. viii.). Icould not count 
the branchioftegous rays, without greatly injuring the 
fpecimen j but there is no doubt of its being one of 
the Perea genus of Linnaaus, It is called by the 
Commodore the Zebra fifli, he not knowing its 
proper name. The drawing is exaftly meafured 
from the real fifla, and is in every part of the fame 
fize. 
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