PLATE VIII. 
Like the Haddock, this species, according to Pennant, was for- 
merly an object of superstition. Some credulous authors believing 
that St. Christopher, in wading through an arm of the sea, caught 
a Doree, and, as a memorial to posterity of the fact, left an impres- 
sion on its sides. Others believe it is the identical species, out of 
whose mouth St. Peter took the tribute money. 
The colours of this fish when living, are olive, or lead colour, varied 
with blue and white, and the whole appears finely glossed with a 
golden hue, as its significant names, Faber and Doree, imply. 
The first dorsal fin contains ten rays, which are strong, and fur- 
nished at the end with a long filament ; the second twenty-four short 
rays; pectoral fourteen, ventral seven; in the first anal fin four 
spiny rays, second twenty-two soft ones, and in the tail fourteen. 
