PISCES THORACICI. PERCA. 
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No. cxxvm. 
Perca cauda rotundata; spinis dorsalibus undecem ; cor pore oblongo, maculis sub-nigris, spina 
plana ires in opercido posteriore. 
The Perch with a round tail ; eleven dorsal spines; an oblong body, spotted with 
blackish round spots; three flat spines in the posterior operculum. 
Called by the Natives Madinawa Bontoo. 
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B. vii. D. 27. P. 18. V. 6. A. 12. C. 17. 
This fish differing very little except in colour, from the one last described, may perhaps be merely a variety. 
It is much rarer than the other, and the fishermen asserted that it was never met with of a large size. 
The colour is much darker; the spots more unequal in size, more irregularly scattered, and either nearly 
black or of a very dark brown. The iris is of an emerald colour. 
The length, thirteen inches. 
No. CXXIX. 
Perca cauda rotundata; spinis dorsalibus novcm; corpore oblongo , vittato; aculeis tribus ad 
marginem operculi posterior is. 
The Perch with a rounded tail, and nine dorsal spines; an oblong body with longitu¬ 
dinal, coloured, stripes; three spines on the margin of the hinder operculum. 
Called by the Natives Rahtee Bontoo. 
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B. vii. D. 26. P. 16. V. 6. A. 12. G. 18. 
This fish is more of the Perch form than the two preceding ; the back is more convex, and the body shorter, 
and not assurgent towards the tail. 
The first lamina of the operculum is not serrate; the spines on the second are on its edge, not on the middle, 
and much shorter than in the last; the fins are rather more orbicular; the dorsal spines nine only. 
The colour extremely brilliant when fresh caught, but soon fades after death; and the fish, though put 
immediately into a pail of sea-water, survived but a very short time. The nose of a pale blue; the lips and 
throat spotted with a deeper blue, and fillets of the same colour diverging from the orbit, cross the yellow 
opercula and branchial membranes. The back and sides are variegated with azure, and dark yellow, fillets, 
alternately. The membrane of the dorsal spines pale blue edged yellow : all the other fins azure, striped with 
dusky yellow. 
The length, including the caudal fin, nine inches. 
