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fishes. THORx\CIC, 21 . Coryphacna. 
Inhabitb the Pacific ocean: about ^5 inches long ; body fubu- 
late, fraooth, datk-browii, dotted with nnnute darker fpots, 
or ornamented with 2 wbitilh lorigitudinal nnes on each lide, 
which begin at the eyes and end in the tail. 
Xinn. Trun/. 1. 187. fai. 17. . . 
Lower jaw a little longer than the upper ; teeth imnu.s, 
both. , 
Borf. 35: ptB. 18; vent. 5 : an. 33 : caud. 14 ra3's. 
21. CORYPH^NA. Head floping fuddenly 
downwards i gill-meinbTane with 5 
rays 1 dofjal fin as long as the back. 
Hi 
''^Ppnris. Sea-green fpotted with orange ; tail forked ; dorfal fin 
with 60 rays. 
Inhzhiis the Mediterranean: 4 — 5 feet long, is fometimes er- 
roneoully called the dolphin ; is very fwift, vigorous and vev 
racious, following Ihips and greedily devouring ^hatevw is 
thrown overboard ; when alive in the water has ® bn g 
fplendour which vanidies when it is dead, body thick, com- 
prelfed, covered with thin llrongly fixed kales , a e, 
belly filvery ; flefh tolerably good. 
Head Ibort, compreffed, above blue, greem^ at ['aes, be- 
neath filvery -, eyes round, near the mouth, pupil black, lur- 
rounded with a white line, iris orange ; watttUarge -, hps 
llrone ; jaws equal, armed with 4 rows of fmall fharp teeth, 
curved 4ck; tongue fhort ; aperture of the gtWt large, the 
cover of one piece -, hack convex ; lateral line yellow, bend- 
ing at the end of the peaoral fins and afterwards ftraight ; 
fins yellow, pale brown at the bafe ; caudal greenifli at the 
edge, anal narrow, entirely yellow, dorfal with yellow rayJ> 
and blue membrane. 
PeU. 21 : vent. 6 : an, 26: caud. 18 rays. 
^l^iJetiUis Tail forked ; dorfal fin with 53 rays. 
Inhabits the great Ocean ; a moft beautiful fifli. 
' PeB, 19 : vent. 6: a?t. 231 Caud. 20 rays. 
^^^nieri. Anal fin with 55 rays. 
Inhabits 
