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table ; and has considerable pretensions to beauty, 
for, every scale on the upper parts being bordered 
with black, an elegant reticulate appearance is given 
to the fish.^ 
Another fish of still more minute dimensions, but 
of remarkable beauty, is also numerous in the basin 
of the waterfall, and all along the stream. The 
negroes call it Tickiticky, a term formed like our 
word Stickleback (the initial S being omitted in negro 
pronunciation before another consonant), and allud- 
ing to the strong spine in the anal. All along the 
margins of the rivulet, particularly where a coarse 
grass grows in the shallows, and shoots its pointed 
blade- tips above the surface, the Tickiticky is nu- 
merous, herding together in little parties of half-a- 
dozen, or a dozen, of various sizes, but none exceed- 
ing two inches in length. They are active and 
amusing; and leap out of the water, if pursued, 
with great vigour. It is a beautiful little fish.f 
* As this Mullet seems to be hitherto unrecognised, I shall describe 
it. Mugil irretituS) mihi. Operculum smooth, silvery ; pre-opercu- 
lum scaled. Lips moderately thick. Fin-ray formula ; — D. 4 — 8 ; 
A. 10 ; C. 17; P. 14; V. 6. Irides golden orange; upper part of 
the body pale olive ; sides silvery ; belly white. Each scale on the 
upper parts is bordered with black. Fins transparent ; the first dorsal 
tinged with yellow ; the rays of all irregularly marked with black, 
which, on the caudal, forms an indistinct blackish transverse band. 
M. monticola of Bancroft is assigned to Jamaica in Griffith’s Anim. 
Kingd. ; no description is given, but the figure does not agree with 
the above, nor does the description of M. aibula in MM. Cuv. and 
Val.’s Poissons. 
•j" The Tickiticky is an undescribed species of Pcecilia, with the 
following characters. Pcecilia melapleura (MeAas, black ; irXevpd, the 
side). Fin-rays, D. 11 j A. 10; C. 28 ; P. 13 ; V. 6. The caudal 
