Exocoetus ...... Great Flying-fijh. This fifh agrees 
with the Slender Flying-fijh (already figured) in the great length 
of its ventral fins, but differs from it, in having a thicker body: 
the pettoral fins alfo reach beyond the end of the ventral, when 
both lay clofe to the body; whereas the pedloral fins of the Slender 
Flying-fijh fcarce reach to the end of them: another character of 
this is having the firft ray of the ventral fins very Ihort and fpread- 
ing. D. ii. P. 18. V. 6. A. 12. 
I have denominated this the Great Flying-fijh , from having feen 
it near two feet long; whereas the Common Flying-fijh at leaft 
thofe in my pofifeffion, are not more than eight inches; nor the 
Slender Flying-fijh more than fix. 
Flying-fijh are met with in vafl flioals between the tropics; but 
are not confined to them; having been feen, though rarely and 
few in number, as low as the latitude of 40 degrees on the coaft 
of N. iVrnerica, and 53 of Europe, 
