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just above the origin of the rays of the pectoral. Tail 
lunated. 
P. 15. D. 12, 12. V. 1, 5* A. 3, 13. C, about 20. 
Colours much as in the common Sea Bream, but more 
vivid; top of the head rich brown; the back scarlet red, 
lighter on the sides, the belly white, with slight mottlings. 
Dorsal, pectoral and caudal tins, and within the mouth, 
Vermillion; ventral and anal fins paler. Compared with the 
common Sea Bream laid beside it, beside the remarkable 
difference in the dimensions, it is distinguished by i wider 
gape, bv teeth less thickly placed, though resembling in 
arrangement and structure, especially the incisors; by a less 
rounded muzzle, a much larger eye, and longer pectorals, 
which are also differently shaped, being more arched. In 
a common Sea Bream of the same length these (ins were 
three inches and three quarters long. '1 he scales also were 
more decidedly waved at their edge. In the stomach 1 tound 
a Comatula and the bait, a slice of fish, with which it was 
taken; but in the lower intestine were rather broad-pieces 
of brown sea-weed, covered with Flustroe, but this being 
Undigested, seems not to be its ordinary food. 
At the first glance I was led to suspect that Ibis fish was 
nothing more than a dumpy specimen ot the common Sea 
Bream; but it differed in so many particulars, beside the 
shortened form, that on minute examination I have been 
compelled to conclude that it is a separate species; in which 
opinion I am supported by the decision of an eminent 
Naturalist, I have not been able to discover any species at 
all closely resembling it in the works of Rondeletius, Gesner, 
Day, Linuajus, Gronovius, Risso or Cuvier; and am there- 
fore compelled to conclude that it is now for the first time 
described : a circumstance the less to be wondered at, when 
We recollect that even in the limited waters of the Mediter- 
ranean and so near a region also as Madeira, several fishes 
have been recorded of which only a single specimen has 
been obtained. The fish here described has been deposited 
with the next preceding, in the British Museum. 
BOGUE. Boops primus, Ray’s Synopsis, p. 135. Box 
vulgaris, Cuvier ; but in his plate Boops V. Spare bogue, 
Risso, Ichthyologic, p. 242. 
A specimen of this fisli, the first recorded as taken in 
Britain, was caught in a ground scan at St. Mawes, in toe 
early part of October, 1842 ; and coming into the possession 
of Allred Fox, Esq., was kindly presented to the Museum 
at Truro. It is abundant in the Mediterranean; hut has 
rarely been taken out of it. 
