PLATE LXIII. 
Although this fish be not of the voracious kind, which the structure 
^f its elongated jaw must render impossible, it may prove itself on 
some occasions a formidable enemy to other fishes of a diminutive 
size, being capable of inflicting a grievous wound with the strong 
serrated bony spine, or process, which constitutes the first ray of the 
anterior dorsal fin. Besides this spine, the same fin contains three 
other ravs of a bony texture, but these are slender, and, comparatively 
to the former, very small. The rays of the second dorsal fin are 
soft, and amount to nine in number : in the pectoral fin are fifteen 
toys ; ventral seven ; anal thirteen ; and caudal fifteen. 
