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Lahrus rojlro furfum reflexo, cauda in extreme cir¬ 
cular i. 
The Lahrus , with the rojlrum turning upward\ and jCHfi-IWfe* 
the tail circular at the end. 
This is a very beautiful fifh 5 it’s ufual fize is about ten inches in length, and it is 
confiderably thick, in proportion : the body is fomewhat comprefled, and the back 
elevated j the fcales are large and very beautiful, and the whole body is elegantly varie¬ 
gated, and, as it were, painted with red, yeliow, and brown in feveral fhades: the 
head is moderately large; the eyes are large, and their pupil round and black: the pa¬ 
late and tongue are fmooth, but there are numerous teeth in the jaws and fauces: the 
back fin has twenty-fix rays, fifteen of which are prickly ; the pedtoral fins have four¬ 
teen rays each, and the ventral ones only fix: the pinna ani has thirteen, and three of 
thefe are prickly ; the tail is large, and is femicircular at the extremity. 
This fpecies is frequent in the Mediterranean, and we have it alfo in our own feas 
in confiderable plenty. Rondeletius and Gefner call it Turdus duodecimus Vielle 
didus i Ray and Willughby, Turdus vulgatifiimus, Tinea marina Venetis j Athenams 
call it KtjtXal and KoyQvtpol. On the coafi: of Cornwall, where it is very common, our 
people call it the Wraffe, and fome the Old-wife. 
Lahrus viridis linea utrinque ccerulea. 
The green Lahrus , wiph a blue line on each fide. 
This is a very beautiful filh ; it’s length is from eight inches to fourteen, and it is 
confiderably thick, in proportion : the head is moderately large; the eyes are large* 
and the noftrils have each a very conlpicuous, double aperture: the mouth is not very 
large, and the lips are thick, and the teeth numerous in the jaws j but the palate, 
tongue, and fauces are fmooth : the back is elevated, and the anterior part of the belly 
is alfo elevated a little into a convexity : the colour of the whole fifh is an extreamly 
beautiful bright green, variegated with a pale blue line on each fide $ the fcales are 
large, and the whole fifh is fmooth and foft to the touch, having a lubricous fluid all 
over it: the back fin has thirty rays, and eighteen of them are prickly; the pedoral 
fins are large, and the tail is undivided : the colour fometimes varies in this fpecies. 
It is not unfrequently caught almofl entirely black, and fometimes fpotted or tuber- 
culofe. In thefe two accidentally varied hates it has been deferibed over-again by au¬ 
thors, as if two other fpecies : in the firh hate Willughby calls it Turdus niger and Me- 
rula Salviani; and in the other, Lepas fivePforus Bellonii. In it’s more ufual hate, the 
antient Greeks have deferibed it under the name of KoVru^^ and KoWuCp^ SuAarn®-’ ; 
and Salvian calls it Yerdone : when of it’s black colour, a great many have called it 
Merulaj fome, Merulus and Turdus niger. 
Lahrus pulchre varius pinnis peEloralibus in extreme ro~ 
tundis. 
The elegantly variegated Lahrus , with the peEloral fins 
round at the extremity . 
This is a very beautiful fpecies: the head is large; the mouth is furnihied with a 
great number of teeth in the jaws and fauces, and is clofed by two thick and fielhy 
lips: the eyes are large ; the nohrils have each a double aperture : the anterior round, 
the hinder oblong and traniverfe ; the fcales are large, foft, and undtuous to the touch 1 
the ground colour of the body is an elegant fky blue, but it is variegated in a beauti¬ 
ful manner, with red, yellow, and brown, and is one of the brighteft and gaudieft- 
coloured fifh we are acquainted with : the back fin has twenty-eight rays, and more 
than half of them are prickly ; the pedtoral fins are ihort and broad ; the belly fins 
are narrower, and the tail is not forked, but ftraight at the extremity. 
This beautiful fpecies is frequent in the Mediterranean, and fome other feas. The 
generality of writers on fillies have, from it’s beautiful variety of colours, called it 
Pavo ; Gefner calls it Turdus fecundus five pavo colore ex Cceruleo viridi 5 Beilonius, 
S f f Turdus 
