THE 
DOUBLE-SCALED CH^ETQDON, 
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Generic Character. 
Teeth (in mofl fpecies) fetaceous, fmall, very 
numerous. 
Body commonly fafciated tranfverfely, Dorfal 
and anal fins flefhy and fcaly towards the 
bafe. 
Specific Character, &c. 
Gold-green CH/ETODON, with the fcales coated 
with fmaller ones. 
The ANGEL-FISH. 
This beautiful fifh is not uncommon about the 
coafts of America and the Weft Indian iflands. It 
is remarkable for the very Angular appearance of 
its fcales ; which are each coated over with much 
fmaller ones; a particularity alone fufficient to dif- 
tinguilh this fpecies from almoft all others. It is 
often confounded with the Chaetodon trioftegus of 
Linnaeus; owing to a miftaken quotation in the 
twelfth 
