THE CHAETODON. 
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Genus XXXIV. — Ch&todott. 
This genus confifts of a tribe of no lefs than twenty- 
three different kinds of fifh, all of them entirely exotic* 
Their generic characters are, an oval body, covered with 
very minute imbricated fcales ; a fmall tlat head, with 3 
declining roftrum ; a Angle dorfal fin, covered with fcales* 
and rifing high above the back ; two fmall pectoral fins i 
and immediately oppofite, upon the thorax, two fharp 
pointed ventral ones. The tail is diftinft from the othe f 
fins, fcaly, and in fotne bifurcated *. As the fifties 
of this tribe are in general inhabitants of a different 
hemifphere, we fli all not tire the reader with a tedion 3 
repetition of barbarous names, where the hiftory of th 51 
animals to which they belong is altogether unknown. 
* Guan. Hift* Pife. p. J38. 
