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NATURAL HISTORY 
FLYING SCORPION. 
This species of fish presents a most extra- 
ordinary appearance, us it is almost entirely 
surrounded w ith thorns and spines. Its body 
is decorated with yellow, interwoven with 
white fillets; the fins on the breast are of a 
purple colour; the dorsal fin has spiny rays, 
with yellow and brown spots, joined below 
by a membrane, of a dark brown colour, 
and above is at liberty; the ventral fins are 
blue, with spots of white; the tail is black, 
blue and white, bearing some slight resem- 
blance to pieces of Roman pavement. In 
size it is somewhat less than the perch, and 
its flesh is firm and white. The Flying 
Scorpion is to be found in tlio rivers ot 
