SHE JylHLLET; 
Genus LII. — The Mullet *. 
Rondeletius has deferibed five different kinds of fea- 
mullets, which do not feem to be any thing more thaq 
.varieties of the fame fpecies : Linuaus enumerates only 
two ; the fea-mullet, and the white. The former is taken 
both off the h.nglijh and Scotch coails. It is covered all over 
with large feales ; the teeth are all placed upon the tongue 
and palate. The back, which is of a dirty green, is 
flightly incurvated ; while the belly projects more confi- 
derably, and is of a pure white. The upper part of the 
filh is curioufly variegated with white and black lines, 
proceeding in a parallel direction, from the head to the 
tail : The feales are alfo arranged in rows parallel to each 
other; and in the fame dire&ion. There are two dorfal 
fins ; the firit fupported by fpinous, and the fecond by 
foft rays ; the tail is bifurcated f. 
The refidence of the mullet is the fandy fiioals and 
bays, into which there is an inlet of frefh water : In fuch 
fituations, they are found all round the fliores of Great 
Britain , where they leave the fand all marked with 
round holes, the traces of their digging, for they keep 
conftantly rooting like hogs among the mud. When 
furrounded by a net, the whole flioal frequently efcapes 
by leaping over it ; one attempting this mode of efcape, 
?nd fucceeding, is immediately followed by all the reft f.« 
The 
* Mugil Cephalus, Lin, Syft. Mullet, Willough. 
■f Willough. p. 174. i Oppiani. Halieut, 
