274 The Hiftory c/ ANIMALS, 
the French, a name they give it to exprefs the gilded yellow colour it has intermixed 
with the browp, and fometimes fingly. 
Zeus cauda bifurca. ^ ^ 
The Zeus, with a forked tail. 
This alfo is a very Angular fifh; the body is extreamly flat and thin, and 
more refembles a flounder than any other fifh in fhape : the head is moderately large 
and comprefled ; the eyes are large, and their iris is of a filvery white; the pupil 
is of a dufky greenifh: the mouth opens very wide, and is cut in an odd manner: 
the noftrils have each a double aperture, and are fituated at fome little diftance below 
the eyes; the whole inflde of the mouth is perfectly fmooth ; there is not the leaft af~ 
perity or refemblance of a tooth in either of the jaws, or on the palate : the back is of 
a dufky colour, mixed, of an olive and a blackifh grey; the fides have more of the 
olive, with a tinge of yellow, and the belly is more yellow than any other part: there 
is but one back fin, but it is very long, and extends to the tail: the pinna ani alfo is 
long, and reaches in the fame manner alfo to the tail ; the tail itfelf is large and fork¬ 
ed : from the place of origin of the pedoral fins, there runs on each fide a kind of 
long filament, and there is fuch another arifing juft before the back fin. 
This is a native of the American Seas, but it has alfo been fometimes met with in Eu¬ 
rope. Willughby calls it Gallus marinus feu Faber Indicus. The natives of the Brafils 
where it is extreamly common, call it Afiercatuxia; and the Portuguefe there, Peixe 
Gallo. Jonfton calls it Abercatuaja Lufitanis Peixe ; and Ruyfch, IcanKapelle. We fre¬ 
quently have it in the colle&ions of the curious, fent over preferved from the Brafils. 
Zeus totus rubens , cauda cequali , rojlro furfutn reflexo . 
The red Zeus , with an even tail , and the rojlrum turn¬ 
ed upward. 
This is a fmall fpecies; it rarely grows to more than three inches in length,, but it 
is very broad, in proportion to that length, and is thin and fharp at the back and 
belly: the head is large and comprefled ; the eyes are large, and ftand at a moderate 
diftance ; their iris is of a filvery white, and the pupil of a bluifh-grey: the mouth is 
large, but there are no tegth in it: the noftrils have each a double aperture, and the 
roftrum is turned up at it’s exremity: the fcales are rough and fmall, and the lateral 
line is turned up toward the back. 
The anterior divifion of the back fin, or, as the generality of authors have called 
it, the anterior back fin, has nine prickly rays, of which the third is the talleft : the 
hinder divifion has twenty-three rays; the pe&oral fins have each fourteen rays, and the 
ventral ones have fix each ; the firft of thefe is prickly: the pinna ani has twenty-fix 
rays, of which the three former are fhort and prickly : the inteftines of this fifh have 
frequent convolutions, and there are two or three appendages to the pylorus. 
The colour of the whole fifh is a deep and ftrong red; it is dufky or purplifh on the 
back, and degenerates into a pale flefh colour about the belly j but on the fides it is 
an elegant crimfon, efpecially about their middle. 
The fifh is frequent in the Mediterranean; the antients were acquainted with it. 
Ariftode and Athenaeus call it K «,Tr f &; and all the Latin writers, in general, Aper. The 
Italians call it Riondo; and the Genoefe, Strivale. 
CHiE'TODOR 
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^ H E body of the Chaetodon is comprefled, and is broad, thin, and fhort: there 
g is only one fin on the back, which is extended the whole length of it: the tail 
is large, and there are in all fix fins, exclufively of the tail: the mouth is fmall, and 
has a pair of lips which are moveable at pleafure, but which, when fhut, cover the 
teeth : the teeth are oblong, contiguous, and flexile; the fcales are rough, and the 
eyes are covered with the common fkin of the head : the branchioftege membrane on 
each fide contains four or five very flender bones. 
Cbcetodon 
