CLIMBING SPARUS. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Jaws bony, divided in the middle and indented on the edge. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Sparus scandens. S. olivaceus, subtus flavescens, oculis aureis. 
Olive-green^ with yellowish abdomen, and 
gold-coloured eyes. 
Perca scandens. Linn. Trans. 3. p. 62, 
Climbing Sparus. Shaw Gen. Zool, 4. p. 475. 
The learned Dr. Shaw has given the following 
translation of lieutenant Daldorff’s paper respecting 
this singular fish, from the Linnean Transactions : 
“ Length about a span ; skin covered with a 
blackish mucus ; dorsal fin occasionally sunk in a 
longitudinal fossule ; it has seventeen spiny and 
eight soft rays ; the pectoral fins have twelve rays, 
the ventral six, the tail eighteen, of which ten are 
spiny, the rest soft. 
“ This fish is remarkable for its power of climb- 
ing, which it performs by the assistance of the 
spines of its gill-covers, moving itself at pleasure up 
the stems of trees growing near the waters it fre- 
