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Cumara, 
*Giadius, 
FISHES. APODAL. 9. Xiphias. 
Inhabits the Mediterranean and Red fcas : has a ftoniach*' 
Bor/. 46 : peB. 25 : an. 34 rays. 
Back gold-colour ; belly filvery. j-ji;. 
Inhabits South America and Tranquebar : feeds on pyj 
and worms; body flender, covered with fmall thin decide 
fcales ; flefh white, tender, delicious. . ,*i: 
Head middle-fized, Hoping, above brownidi ; eyes large* f 
black ; iris with a white ring and another yellow one : 
fmall ; jazas equal ; teeth fmall, {harp ; lips {Irongj ^ 
able ; tongue fmooth, broad ; aperture of the gills i 
the cover of one piece and furrounded with a nio^ ,]|t 
lateral line nearer the back, broad, filvery ; vent near®'', 
mouth than the tail ; /ns long, Icaly, rigid, white at th® 
and edged with blue, the rays foft, branched. . 
Porf. ^o: peB.zij.-. an.\^-. caud. 18 rays. 
Back blue ; belly white. „i 
Inhabits freih waters of Chili: is about a fpan long, 
crolTed with Rripes, 
g. XIPHIAS. Head furnifhed with a 
hard, fword-fhaped upper jaw*, 
without teeth; gill-membrane 8-r^y5c, 
body rounded, without apparent 
Sword/f' 
Dorfal fin falcate. EufOr ji* 
Inhabits the European znA Mediterranean /eas : grow* of 
feet long; is very aftive, and feeds on fi(h, the 
which It penetrates and deftroys with its fword-like 
body long, fmooth, covered with a thin {kin ; flelh very 
hoping, {leel-blue; woiit/i large; mvitr jam corof m; 
at the top and {harp at the point, four times as long ^ J 
under jaw, which isjikewlfe (harp; eyes prominent, r kt 
black, iris grcemlh-white ; aperture of the^ gills 0. 
cover of a laminae; back black, belly white 
fpotted with black; fcytbe-like, dorfal hxovcti, 
yellowith, the reft cinereous; caudal kmilumr. 
Ber/.z^z: pea.tq: an. 18: ca^d. 26. 
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