SEA-BREAMS, 
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are brownish ; the pectorals, ventrals, and caudal 
are pale red. There is a blackish spot at the 
commencement of the lateral line. The sides of 
the head gleam in parts like frosted silver, or like 
the back of a looking-glass newly silvered. 
I The scales (see the engraving on the follow- 
' generally approach, more or less 
: nearly, to a square form, slightly bulging at the 
I sides ; the front, or attached end, scalloped at 
I the edge, and waved in a radiating manner : the 
hinder, or free end, marked with a number of 
minute flexible points lying one over the other, 
most numerous on the scales of the belly. Those 
of the lateral line have the mucus-tube short but 
wide. (2, represents a scale from the back; &, 
one from the lateral line ; c, one from the belly. 
The silvery pigment beneath the scales does not 
come off with the latter when these are detached, 
