fishes. tilORACtC. 28. Sparus. ^ 
A black foot behind the gills. • , n 
Inhabits Japan ; 6 inches long ; body coated with filvery 
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leaks ; before the eyes are 2 noftrils. 
Dor/. jl ; peel. 16 : vent. J : an. caud. 18 rays. 
Dorfal fin divided ; glll-covets and tail fpotted with black, 
■ Inhabits Japan; head coated with lilvery leaks nearly a hnget 
long. 
Dorf. ,j, 5, pect. io, vent. J, aii.l, caaa. 14 fays. 
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B. Body mojlly red. 
Tail nearly entire ; body red. r • r 
Inhabits European, American and Japan feas ; is often eaten, 
but frequently proves poifonous ; iris filvery, 
Bor/.", pect. 19, vent. 6, an. .5, caud, 18 rays, 
'•‘‘^ior. Body red, yellowifli at the fides •, tail a little forked. 
Inhabits the Indian fea ; 10 inches long ; catches aqu^ic mfeas 
like the Chxtodon rofiratus, by its Inout which it can 
lengthen out into a tube ; body broadifli, fat, coated with 
large fcales of a metallic-green colour at the edge , w len ea 
it becomes brown ; flefli eatable, 
Bead comprefl'ed, fcaly ; eyes lateral ; ytiair divided, each wit 
2 large ftraight conic teeth in tlte middle ; gdUovers very 
entile ; firft lateral line nearer the back, beginning at the end 
of the dorfal fin, the other ftraight ; vent nearly in the mid- 
dle ; fins yellowifti dorfal and anal with green fmall bands, 
the laft ray but one of the anal very long. 
Dorf. J, pect. 11, vent. 6, an, p, , caud. 11 rays. 
'us Red; longitudinal marks on the body and tip of the tail 
is prefervedin the Liverian Slujeum, and Dr. Shaw, 
who has given a beautiful figure of it in the Naturabfi’s 
Mifcellany, f. 3 1, fufpeas it to be Britijh. 
The fore-part of the dorjal and edge of the anal finS are blue. 
Rddilh; 
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fpot ; fcales large ; tail forked. 
