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UMBUTNA. 
CtTviEE remarks, that in external characters, the family of which 
the genus Umlrina forms a part, displays but little difference from 
that of the Perches, among which fishes a portion of them have 
been arranged by some authors. Nor are the distinctions easily made, 
although they have been sufficiently well marked to influence the 
decision of Cuvier himself, as well as of other leading naturalists; 
whose arrangement we follow the more readily as the species of these 
scienoid fishes — which are so called from Sciana, another of the 
genera belonging to this family — that wander to our coast, are but few, 
and of uncertain and rare occurrence. 
The fishes of the genus JJmhnna have the body compressed and 
somewhat lengthened; the upper jaw overtopping the lower, furnished 
with fine teeth, with none on the palate. The head covered with 
small scales, the body with scales of larger size. Cheeks without 
plates, but the covers moderately armed and serrated. Two dorsal 
fins; a short and thick barb beneath the lower jaw. This genus 
ranks with the thoracic fishes of Limueus. ^ 
UMBRINA. 
Vnihra, 
Scicena or Umhra, 
Umhrino, 
Bcimna cirrhosa, 
Umhrina cirrhosa, and 
vulgaris, 
Per segue umbre, 
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Gessee’s Nomenclator .Pisoium, p. 53. 
JoNSTON. He adds the Glaucus, of Belon. 
Willoughby; p. 299, Tab. S. 21. 
Linx.eus. 
CuviEK. Taerell; British Pishes, vol. i, 
p. 109. 
Lacepede. Eisso. Jenyns; Man., p. 353. 
Guethee; Cat. Br. M., vol. ii, p. 274. 
This fish is well known through the whole length of the 
Mediterranean, and from the coast of Spain is met rvith so far 
south as the West Indies; hut it seems to avoid colder climates, 
and has only once been recognised in the British Islands. In 
the Minutes of the Proceedings of the Linnman Society for 
1827, November 20th., (vol. xvi,) a letter was read from John 
Cresswell, Esq., F.L.S., giving the information that a fish 
