FLYING-FISH. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Head covered with scales. 
Gill membrane ten-rayed. 
Pectoral fins very long. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
ExoctETUS volitans. E. abdomine utrinque carinato. Linn. 
Syst. Nat. Gmel. 1. p. 1399* 
The abdomen carinated on both sides. 
Exoccetus kvolans. E. argenteus, 
dorso subfusco, pinnis ventral ibus ante 
medium abdominis. Shaw Gen. Zool.5. 
p. 144. pi. 117- 
Exocffitus pinnis ventralibus parvis prope 
pectus. Bloch, pi. 398. 
Flying Fish. . . . Penn. Brit. Zool. 3. p. 333. no. 159. 
pi. 67. Will. Ichth. 233. 
The remarkable singularity which distinguishes 
these fish from all others, is their ability to sustain 
themselves in the air during a temporary flight of a 
few hundred feet. The idea of a fish having the 
power to leave its own element and occasionally 
