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EXOC^.TITS. 
Bodt moderately compressed, and, with the head, clothed with scales. 
Low down on each side of the hody a row of carinated scales, more 
prominent, and separate from the lateral line. Dorsal and anal fins 
far behind. Abdominal fishes; but what particularly distinguishes this 
genus is the very large extent of the pectoral fins, the rays of which 
are stout and firm; the arm bone or radius of this fin also large. 
GREATER FLYING FISH. 
Hirtindo PUnii, 
Mugil alatus, 
Hirundo, 
Exoccstus exiliens, 
JoNsTON ; PI. 18, f. 5, pi. 17, f. 8. 
UoNDELETItrS. 
Willoughby; Table p. 4, p. 233. 
OuviER. Tueton’s LinuEBUS. 
Yareell ; British Pishes, vol. i, p. 468. 
The earliest account we possess of the occurrence of a Flying 
Fish in Britain is by Pennant, who reports that in June, 1765, 
there was one caught in the River Towy, at a small distance 
below Carmarthen; whither it had been brought by the tide 
which flows as far as that town. He had not himself seen it, 
and as at the time when Pennant wrote his “British Zoology,” 
it was not understood that there existed more than one sjiecies 
of Flying Fish, except indeed the Flying Gurnard; he therefore 
saw no reason to doubt that the representation he has given, 
and which he must have derived from some preserved example, 
was a correct figure of the fish; although in fact it is a likeness 
of the Lesser Flying Fish, ( Exocattus xolitansj of which we 
entertain a doubt whether it has at any time been seen in 
our seas, 
A second example of a Flying Fish is recorded to have been 
found on the beach at Helford, near Falmouth, scarcely dead, 
and still fresh from the ocean; and from the dimensions of this 
