The anterior fins bear a ftrong general refemblance 
to a pair of feet: yet it is faid the animal has not 
the power of ufing them as fuch. If, however, I 
am not miftakcn, a certain author, (Monf. Renard?) 
in his Hiftory of Fifh, declares that he faw an in¬ 
fiance of a fifii o ' this fpecies being kept for three 
days out of the water,, and walking about the houfe 
in the manner of a dog. Its fize is not large, very 
rarely exceeding the length of a foot; and the fpe- 
cimens fcen in our mufeums are in general far fmal- 
ler. The color is a yellowifh brown, paler beneath, 
and the whole body is covered with numerous irre¬ 
gular blackifh-brown marks or fpots. It is a fiih of 
a predacious nature. 
