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CENTEISOUS. 
Poem of the body compressed, oblong, or elevated; the anterior bones 
of the skull brought forward into a long tube, at the end of which is 
a small mouth having no teeth. Body with a cuirass, or separate bony 
plates Two dorsal fins, the first with a very strong spine; ventral 
fins small, on the belly. 
TRUMPET-MSH. 
BELLOWS-FISH. 
Scolopax, 
it 
Balisfes seolopax, 
Oentriscus seolopax, 
Contrisque becasse, 
Solenostemus seolopax, 
Centriscus seolopax, 
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JoNSTON; Table 1, f. 9, but this name is 
not derived from the same Greek word 
which signifies a woodcock, but from 
Scolops, a long and slender instrument, 
from which also the bird itself obtained 
its designation. 
Willoughby; p. 160, table 25, f. 2, 
representing a dry specimen. 
Artedi AKD LiUN/EUS. 
CuviEE. Bloch; pi. 123, f. 1, a poor figure. 
Lacepede. 
Risso. 
Fleming; Br. Animals, p. 220. 
Donovan; pi. 63. 
Jbnyns; Manual, p. 400. 
Yaerell; Br. Fishes, vol. i, p. 346. 
Gunther; Oat. Br. M., vol. iii, p. 518. 
This curious fish can scarcely be said to be common in 
any part of the iMediterranean, and it is scarce everywhere 
else. Willoughby met with some examples in the fish-market 
at Rome, whither they had been brought for sale as food; but 
at best, and in a country where very little birds and fishes 
furnish a supply for the table, these can add but little for 
