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general colour is a dufky brownifh olive, and along the Tides there run four parallel 
longitudinal lines, of a fine bright and golden yellow : the fins and tail are alio of an 
elegant yellow, ftained irregularly with a very bright fcarlet: the fecond fin of the 
back has eight rays3 the lower jaw is furnifhed with two oblong, white cirri or 
beards. 
This fpecies is very frequent in the Mediterranean, and it is alfo caught frequently 
about the coafts of the Weft of England. Salvian calls it Mullus major 3 Aldrovand 
and Jonfton, Mullus major ex Hifpania miflus 5 Ray and Willughby, Mullus major 
nofter et Salviani. Salvian is, indeed, the firft author who has deferibed it. 
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Trigla capite glabro, tot a ruhens, cirris carens. H&tfljg Of t|)£ 
The ref fmooth-headed Trigla , without any beards. 
This is a very fingular and a very beautiful fifti :* the head is large, and of a very 
odd figure, angulated and approaching to fquare : the eyes are large 3 they ftand near 
together on the top of the head, and their iris is of a gold yellow : the noftrils ftand 
a little below them, and have each a double aperture : the mouth is monftroufly large, 
and there are a great number of teeth in the jaws, in the palate, and in the fauces, 
but the tongue is fmooth : the whole fifti is of a beautiful red colour: the back is con- 
vex, and the Tides diftended To as to give it a bellied look : the feales are very large, 
and adhere but loofely. 
The firft back fin has fix rays, of which the fecond is the talleft3 the fecond has ten 
rays, of which the firft is prickjy : the pe&oral fins have each twelve rays, and the 
ventral ones have fix each 5 the firft of thefe is aculeated : and the pinna ani has ten 
rays, of which the two firft are aculeated 3 the tail is fomewhat forked, and has about 
twenty rays; there are but four appendages to the pylorus, and the air-bladder is 
fimple. 
This is frequent in the Mediterranean. Ray and Willughby call it Mullus im- 
berbis five Rex Mullorum. 
Trigla capite parum aculeato , pinnula fingulari , adpinnas 
pe&orales. XI) C ijjItUH- 
The Trigla , with a fomewhat prickly head , and with a fen - fMCCfS* 
gular pinnule at the pe&oral fins . 
This is one of the Trigla which have the pedoral fins fo long, that they are of ufe 
in flying3 and it has thence, by Tome inaccurate writers, been confounded with the 
Exocatusor Flying-fifh, diftindively fo called: the head is large, of a fomewhat depref- 
fed figure, angulated and approaching to fquare3 it’s furface is, in feveral parts, irre¬ 
gular, but behind it’s covering is continued into two long fpines, which lie extended 
on the back 5 the coverings of the gills alfo terminate each in a long and very (harp 
fpine: the eyes are large, and ftand near one another on the top of the head5 the 
noftrils have each a double aperture, and ftand a little below them : the^ mouth is 
large, and is very well furnifhed with teeth, both in the jaws, in the palate, and in the 
fauces, but the tongue is fmooth : the body is large toward the head, but it grows ex- 
treamly fmall at the tail: the back is convex, the belly flatted, and the fides rounded 
and prominent: the feales are hard and rough to the touch, and are elevated in the 
middle into a kind of eminence: the firft of the two back fins has five rays, the fe¬ 
cond has eight, and the pinna ani has only fix: the pedtoral fins have twenty-feven or 
twenty-eight rays each 3 thefe are immoderately long, and are connected by a mem¬ 
brane fofficiemly firm and tough, and of a brownifh colour, fpotted with black: the 
ventral fins ftand in the middle of the belly, and they alfo are very long, and have 
five rays each: in the middle of the back there ftands a flhort fpine : the tail is fork¬ 
ed, and there are two large feales at it’s origin : near each of the pedtoral fins there 
is a Angular pinnule of fix rays 3 the pedtoral fins ferve it to fly with, but it never flies 
far or high. 
This fpecies is frequent in the Mediterranean, and in fome other Teas. Ariftotle, 
iElian, and Oppian call it XeAhJwv • Athenteus, ; and Oppian, in another place, 
“Igr)% 3 Pliny calls it Milvago 5 and many of the old Latin writers, Milvus 3 Rondelet 
and Geiner call it Hirundo Pifcis 3 Gillius, Accipiter 3 and fome, Lucerna and Para- 
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