264 d"he Hiftory of ANIMALS. 
has fourteen : the pedtoral fins have each fixteen rays ; the ventral ones have each five 3 
and the pinna ani has thirteen. 
This fpecies was well known to the antients. Ariftotle and .Mian call it Callyo- 
nymus; Athenasus, $ Athenasus, "A yv<& ■ and Oppian, 'H^oxonng ^ Pliny 
and many of the Latin writers call it Uranofcopus; others, Callyonymus; Gefner 
and others, Callyonymus five Uranofcopus; and Gaza, Pulcher pifcis. It is caught in 
the Mediterranean, and is called upon the coafts there Meforo, Lucerne, and Pefce 
prete, Bona, Tapecon, and Rafpecon. 
T R I G L A. 
T HE head of the Trigla is very declivous from the vertex to the roftrum : it is 
large, and of a figure approaching to fquare, and is ufually befet with tuber¬ 
cles or prickles : the body grows gradually fmaller from the head, till it terminates in 
a very flender tail. In many of the fpecies of this genus, there are two or three arti¬ 
culated appendages under the pe&oral fins: the eyes ftand near together, on the top of 
the head, and are covered with a cuticle : there are two fins on the back, the ante¬ 
rior one of which is aculeated : the pedtoral fins, in fome of the fpecies, are very large 5 
in fome, indeed, they are fo long, that the fifh can fly above the fur face of the water, 
by means of them, in the manner of what is ufually called the Flying-fifh, or Exo- 
castus: and many of the fpecies have a power of making an odd noife. 
Trigla capite glabroy cirris geminis in maxilla inferiore. 
The Trigla , with a fmooth heady and with two cirri on 
the lower jaw . 
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The head of this fpecies is remarkably large, and of a ftrangely irregular figure, an- 
gulated, but not prickly: the opening of the mouth is large, and there are rows of 
teeth, not only in the jaws, but deep in the fauces, and on the palate: the eyes are 
large, and ftand near one another on the top of the head; the colour of the whole 
fifh is a dufky yellow : the body is large toward the head, but it diminifhes gradually 
in fize to the other extremity, where it is very fmall: the back is convex ; the fides 
are prominent and flefhy, and the belly is fomewhat flat: the fcales are large and beau¬ 
tiful, but they adhere fo loofely, that the leaf! force wipes them off: the firft of the two 
back fins has feven prickly rays, the firft of which is the tailed:; the fecond fin of the 
back has nine rays, which are all foft and ramofe : the pe&oral fins have fixteen rays; 
the ventral fins ftand at the fame diftance from the extremity of the head with thefe, 
and have fix rays each : the pinna ani has feven rays; the tail is forked, and has feven- 
teen rays; the appendages of the pylorus are twenty-fix. 
This fpecies is frequent in the Mediterranean, and is caught in a particular abun¬ 
dance about the coaft of Italy: the antients were well acquainted with it. Arifto- 
tle, Mian, Oppian, and Athenaeus call it • Ovid, Columella, Pliny, and all the 
old Latin writers, Mullus; Ray, Willughby, and many of the moderns have alfo re¬ 
tained the fame name ; others call it Mulus; and fome, Mullus minor and Mullus bar- 
batus; Salvian, Mullus five Mulus minor. 
Trigla capite glabroy lineis utrinque quatuor longitudinalibus 
luteis. %f)t f&Wt* 
The Trigla y with a fmooth heady and with four yellow UUllltt* 
longitudinal lines . 
This is a very beautiful fpecies; it grows to more than a foot in length, and is very 
elegantly variegated, and, as it were, painted : the head is large, fomewhat deprefled, 
and of a kind of fquare figure: the mouth is wide, and there are teeth in the fauces 
and on the palate, as well as in the jaws: the eyes are large, and very beautiful; 
their iris is of a fine fcarlet; they ftand near one another on the top of the head, and 
at fome diftance below them ftand the noftrils, which have each a double aperture : 
the body is thick near the head, but it grows taper to the tail, where it is very fmall; 
the back is fomewhat deprefled ; the fides are prominent, and the belly is flatted : the 
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