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Section XII. 
Genus LIII. — Flying-Fi/b *. 
This genus comprehends two kinds of flying-fiik, ti.- 
volitans and evolans of Linttcetts ; the former is the mod 
common kind of the winged inhabitants of the fea. 
Hardly* any inftance occurs of either kind being 
found in the Britijh feas f : They are frequent m the 
Mediterranean, and warmer latitudes in the Atlantic , 
where they are continually hunted by the Dorados while 
they continue in their own element ; and, as often as 
they endeavour to efcape them by afeending to the air, 
they become the victims of the gull or the albatrofs ; or 
are by them again forced back into the mouth of their 
purfuers below, who have Hill their eyes fixed upon them, 
and keep pace with their flight. Thus harraffed by in- 
veterate enemies in both elements, they often fall down 
upon the decks of fhips as they pafs, and feem to yield 
themfelves up to man as the more merciful deftroyer. 
In fi'/.e, the flying- fifh nearly refembles the mackrcl, 
only of a longer and mote {lender form : if the wings are 
taken away, it bears a llrong fimilarity to the mullet , 
The 
* Exocretus Volitans, Lin. Syft. Mugil Alatus, Rond, 
f Vide Pennant’s Brit. Zool. gen. 38. 
