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BRAMA. 
Thb body compressed, deep; head blunt and round above the mouth* 
clefts of the jaws opening downward. Dorsal and anal fins single ana 
long; tail forked. GiU-covers entire. Ventral fins thoracic. 
RAY’S BREAM. 
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WiLiouGiiBy; Appendix, p. 17, Tab. v. 12. 
Bat; Synopsis, p. 116. 
Donovan; pi. 37. 
Fceming; Br. Animals, p. 201. 
•Tenyns; Manual, p. 369. 
Yaraell; Br. Fishes, vol. i, p. 133. 
Lacepede. Risso. 
Report of the Penzance Nat. Hist. Soc., 
for 1848, copied in Zoologist for 1849, 
XX vi. 
Gunther; Oat. Br. M., vol. ii, p. 408. 
Cuvier expresses his opinion that it was Ray’s Bream which Rafinesque 
had in view in describing his Lepodus saragus, and which in Sicily is 
called Saragu imperiali. 
This fish was first made known to science by Eay, who 
obtained a figure and description from his friend, D. J. Johnson, 
of an example which had been left by the tide at the mouth 
of the Tees, in Yorkshire. This was in the month of September, 
1681 , and although since that time many specimens have come 
into the hands of naturalists, it is worthy of notice that a 
large proportion of them have only been met with dead on 
the shore after a storm, or ready to expire, as if they had 
been exposed to some uncongenial influence of weather or 
temperature after having wandered from a depth or district 
which was better fitted to their natural habits. One, however, 
that came into my possession, was taken with a hook by a 
Cornish fisherman; and a remark of Kisso implies that it is 
also caught with some regularity in the Mediterranean in May, 
June, and December. The comparative rarity of its capture 
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