fLATE LxXlil. 
*Xposed for sale, they have been often seen of twenty^ or ihi'rty 
pounds each. The largest on record was, however, far superior 
those, weighing no less than Seventy-six pounds * : it is mentioned 
Duhamel, on the authority of Gortier> who sent him an account of 
this gigantic example of Sparus Dentex. 
A more voracious fish is scarcely known ; and when we consider 
ferocious intliilatioh, and the strength of its formidable canine 
^eth, -vve must be fully sensible of the great ability it possesses in 
^hacking other fishes, even of a. superior size, with advantage. It is 
^^serted, that, when taken in the fishermen’s nets, it will seize upon 
other fishes captured with it, and mangle them dreadfully. Being 
Swift Swimmer, it finds abundant prey, and soon attains to a con- 
^^'^erable size. During the winter it prefers deep waters, but in tho 
01 about May, it quits this retreat, and approaches the en- 
^’"‘ince of great rivers, where it deposits its spawn between the crevices 
°f stones and rocksi 
I’lie fisheries for this kind of Sparus is carried on upon an extensive 
*cale in the warmer parts of Europe, In the rivers of Dalmatia and 
Levant, the capture of this fish is an object of material considera' 
An 
»ftl, 
inadvertency of expression, tliat may possibly mislead, has escaped from the peii 
t- Shaw, in treating of Sparus Dentex in his Gen. Zoology. This fish, he observes, is 
general she mid shape of a carp ; but, from the preceding remarks, it will evidently 
Ppear, that its ordinary size is much superior to the carp, at the same time tliat its figure 
nut a very remote resemblance indeed to that well-known fish. Vide Gen. ZooU 
