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CHEYSOPHEYS. 
With round molar teeth on the sides of the jaw, forming three rows 
in the upper; a few conical teeth in front. 
GILTHEAD. 
Awraia, 
Spams aiimia, 
ft ti 
Spare Doi-ade, 
Ohrysoplmjs aurata. 
JoNSTON; Tab. 16, f. 2. 
WiLLOUSHBY; p. 307, Tab. v. 5. 
Linn.®tjs. Fleming; Br. An., p. 211. 
Jenyns; Manual, p. 353. 
Lacepede. Eisso. 
CuviEE. Yaeeell; Br. F., vol. i, p. 111. 
This fish is well known in the Mediterranean, and it 
appears from Pliny and Columella that it was held in much 
esteem for the tables of ancient Eome, for the supply of which 
it was kept in ponds, and fed with oysters to give it a better 
appearance and fiavour; and in Martial’s opinion it was only 
when thus fed that it became worthy of notice: 
“Non omnis laudem pretiumquo Aurata merotur; 
Sed cui solus crib conclia Lncrina cibus.” 
Xenia. 
The Gilthead only shall my jiraisc partake 
When fed with shell-fish from the Lucrino lake. 
And shell-fish, with crabs, were supposed to be its chief or 
only food in its free condition, the solid structure of its teeth 
being well fitted to crush them in such a way as to be fit 
for digestion. 
The Gilthead does not often wander so far north as the 
British Islands, although examples have been met with in 
Cornwall and Devonshire, and Dr. Fleming obtained one so 
far north as the mouth of the Kiver Tay, in Scotland. Mr. 
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