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Water at once. When they fly, they make a kind of Stridor , 
ds fome Fowls with their Wings. 
KITE-FISH. So called alfo from his Wings or Gill- 
Fins, which, what they want in length, they have in breadth 
and ftrength. Figur’d by Rondeletius, and accurately de- 
fcribed. Saving, that he mentions but feven of his eight 
m This fifhfeems to be the fame with that which Marggra- 
Tjim defcnbes by the Name of PIRAPEBE. 
Another KITE-FISH of the fame Species. Figur’d by 
lohnfton. Tab. 17. N. 9. . . 
Of the GILL-FINS of the FLYING-FISH, it is further 
obfcrvable. That they are fattened very high near their 
Backs 5 that fo at the fame time their Bodies may be in fome 
part fuftained by the Water, and their Wings have a little 
fcope to play above it, for their eafier advance into the 
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The BEARDED-LOACH or GROUNDLING. Gobi- 
tes Barbatula. It is a fmall fiih about five inches long, 
bearded with fix fmall Threads, three on each fide. Yet 
Bellonius mentions but four. Nor doth Gefner picture more 
in his corrected figure. See them both. 
The MAILED-FISH. Cataphracius Schonveldii. It was 
brought from Guiny. But is alfo oiten taken in the Mouth 
of the Elb. It is well defenbed by the Author of the Name. 
And by John ft on well figur’d, Tab. 4$. Butin Tab. 24. but 
fcurvily, unlefs it be another Species. It is a fmall fiih about 
five or fix inches long, with a broad fquat head, and thence 
taper’d to the end of the Tail. His Scales are as it were 
doubled, by which he becomes of an angular figure, with 
about eight Angles before, and fix behind. His Nofe-end 
armed with two Prickles Handing together in a femilunar 
figure; fuppofed to be venemous. 
The TAMO AT A pictur’d and defcribed by Pifo, feems to 
be the fame with this fiih. 
Another MAILED-FISH of the fame Species. 
The MAILED-FISH of Bra file. It hath a near re- 
femblance to the former 5 from w hence I have Nam d it. 
I find it nowhere defenb’d. Tis I a foot long. His Head 
an inch and I long, and near as broad. On the hinder 
part of his Head he hath three Angles, one on each fide, 
and 
