PLATE XCVII. 
^^igcoires sont d’un rouge cclatant. II a la I6vre sup6rieure cxten- 
sible ; la machoire inferieure plus longue ; la nageoirc dorsale en 
lorme de faulx, avec un ou deux rayons aiguillonnes et quarante-six 
articules ; un rayon aiguillonne et trente-cinq articul^s a Tanale ; la 
'^audale fourcbue j" ses dcailles sont unies. Le Chrystose lune se 
P^chc, mais tres rarement, dans les mers d’Europe: il acquiert 
*luatre a cinq picds de long.” 
Since the publication of Mr. Pennant’s Zoology, three specimens 
tbe Opab have been caugbt on tbe coast of Scotland ; two in tbc 
J’irtb of Forth, and tbe third at no very considerable distance from 
'hat place. One of the latter, a fish in fine preservation, is at pre- 
"^nt in our collection. Another, rather smaller, was discovered 
shanded on the coast, by some labourers employed in the colliery 
'I'ade, and was eaten at a neighbouring cottage ; and the fate of the 
'bird is not correctly knovvn. Besides those Scottish specimens, an- 
other was caught some time ago on the western coast of England, 
hy the fishermen of those parts ; who afterwards disposed of it in a 
'mutilated state to S. P. Bryer, Esq. of Weymouth ; some account of 
"'hich lias recently appeared in a work entitled the British Miscellany *. 
* '’!■ 22. Brit. Misc. It iniglit be improper to conclude our account of the Opah 
"itliout adverl'mg to a few observation* that hare recently appeared in the work above 
“■entioued. The compiler informs us, “ he knows of no coloured figure of this fish,” 
from the tenor of which it is possible the reader might conclude that no such figure had 
been previously published, which would not be correct, as a coloured plate of it does 
actually occur in tlie Xaturalist’s Miscellany of Dr. Shaw, vol. iv, pi. 140. This is an 
«vetsigl,ttliat might easily be committed, though it were belter to have been avoided. 
IVith regard to the other remarks they appear, to us at least, incomprehensible. V, e are 
fold, for injtance, '• jt is rather astonishing that Linnaeus, Omdtn or Turton, do not men- 
