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PAGELLUS. 
Sra T! reams with the molar teeth small, in two rows; the front teeth 
slender, numerous, the outward series slightly the largest. 
ERYTHIilNUS. 
Erytlirinus or ItuhelUo, .JonsTOU; p. 67, tab. 18, f. 6. 
“ •* Willougtiry; p. 311, tab. v. 6. 
Pagellus Erythnnus, Outieb; Gukiuee; Catalogue of 
Br. Museum, vol. i, p. 473. 
This fish is well known in the Mediterranean, and its range 
extends so high as the mouth of the Danube. It is also not 
uncommon to the southward as far as Teneriffe; hut its course 
to tlie north is less extensive, although it has been taken, not 
only in Cornwall and Devon, but in the Firth of Forth. 
In its more native seas it is in the habit, like most others 
of this family, of changing its haunts according to the season; 
in winter keeping in deeper water, but in summer drawing 
near the shore, where froin the regard in which its flesh is 
held it becomes an object of interest. Willoughby thought it 
most excellent in winter ; which at least implies that it is caught 
at that season. 
It may be readily distinguished from our Becker, or from 
the true'Pagrus, with which it has been confounded; and also 
from the Common Sea Bream, and the Spanish Bream. From 
the former it differs in its smaller and more lengthened form 
and sharper snout; in which particulars it also differs from the 
two last-named species; as well as from the adult growth of 
the Common Sea Bream in the absence of the conspicuous spot 
on the side. In the individual I have examined the colour 
also varied remarkably from all the species of this family I 
have seen; but this is less to be insisted on since Risso repre- 
