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BOOPS. 
Othek characters as in the sparoid fishes; teeth of the outward row 
broad and cutting; mouth rather small. 
BOGUE. 
BOX. 
Bodps, Box, Bo'ez, 
Bodps primus, 
Sparus hoops, 
Boops or Box vulgaris, 
(t tt <( 
Le Spare Bague, 
Bogue, 
OXEYE. 
JoNSTON; Table 20, f. 8. 
Willoughby; p, 317, tab. v. 8. 
Linnhsus. 
Cuvier. 
Yaerell; Br. Fishes, 2nd. Sup. 
Lacepede. 
Eisso. 
In some parts of the European side of the IMediterranean 
the Bogue is a common fish, and where it frequents it is in 
great abundance. Outside the Straits of Gibraltar also, it is 
found far to the south, so that it is known in the Canary 
Islands, and even, perhaps, in the West Indies. But it is not 
commonly found to wander northward; and therefore it is not 
a fish that we should expect to visit our coasts, for the in- 
fluences which point its course in that direction, across such 
a depth of water, however powerful, appear to be exceedingly 
obscure. 
The first British example we have a record of was caught 
in a ground-scan, in company with Grey Mullets, in the early 
part of October, 184.2, at St. Mawes, in the harbour of Fal- 
mouth, and fortunately came into the hands of Alfred Fox, 
Esq., who caused a drawing to be taken, from which our 
