PLATE XXXVII. 
forcipata pinnarum dorsi et ani radiis sept®*® 
prioribus elongatis. Bonaterre 
Ichth. f. 104- n. 36. pi. 50. Jig. X92. 
The toothed Gilt-head is to be considered as the rarest of the 
tribe hitherto discovered on the British coasts, with the exception 
two or three very doubtful species mentioned by Pennant, after Ray a® 
Willughby. A fish of this kind (the toothed Gilt-head) was cotno’*’ 
nicated to Mr. Ray by Mr. Jonston, a gentleman of Yorkshire, 
informed him it was found at the mouth of the Tees, on the 1®'’^ 
of September, 1681 ; and a figure of it was in consequence 
in Willughby’s work, where it appears under the following 
nation, Brama marina cauda forcipata. To this account a® 
figure Mr, Pennant refers ; whether he ever saw the fish itself 
uncertain : for he does not speak of it as a native of our seas, **P°'' 
any other authority than that of Ray above quoted. 
fiance the time of Ray there is no instance within our knowl®^^* 
on record, to prove that the toothed Gilt-head has been taken, ® 
seen upon our coasts till the year 1192, when a fish of this sp®*- 
V. as caught at St. Andrew’s, Scotland, and presented by 
Lupisdaine, Esq. of Innergellie, to the late Mr. Weeks, Prop*'*®’’® 
1 all ■ 
of the Edinburgh Museum, who caused it to be finely preserved, 
exhibited. After the dissolution of the Museum the subject 
into our possession, and thus enabled us to submit a figure o* 
extraordinary creature to our rpaders, tire drawing of Plate 3l, 
taken from it. 
