THE GILT-HEAT). 
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Section VIII. 
Genus XXXV . — Bhc Gilt-head, 
i. he fifties of this tribe are for the moft part inhabitants 
°f the South Seas, where they often relieved the want of 
the adventurous Captain Cook and his hungry compa- 
nions. The body is of an oval fhape, carinated, and co- 
vered with very (lender fcales : The head is comprefied, 
fraly, and of a moderate fixe; the jaws are fnrnilhed 
tvith teeth, which are covered by the lips, the lower pro- 
jecting beyond the upper. There is but one dorfal, and 
one anal fin ; the pectoral arc placed near the belly, and 
greatly flrarpened towards the end : the ventral fins are 
^nailer, and placed fomewhat behind them. 
I’he Lunulated Gilt-head 
T. 
. HIS fpecies is an inhabitant of the BritiJIs coafts, where 
^ haunts the bold, rocky, and deep (bores. The whole 
6 e nus to which it belongs feed chiefly upon oyflers, and 
. tller ftell-fifli, which they comminute with their (Irong 
before they enter the (lomach. The apparatus of 
VoL - HI. E e the 
1 Anrata, Rondelet. Sparus Lunula, Lin. Syfc. 
