an eminent naturalift, ” it leads a mod miferable life. 
In its own element it is perpetually harraffed by the 
Dorados, and other fifli of prey, and if it endeavors 
to avoid them by having recourfe to the air, it either 
meets its fate from the Gulls or the Albatrofs, oris 
forced down again into the mouth of the inhabitants 
of the water, which keep pace below with its aerial 
cxcurfion. 
It fhould be obferved that this power of flight or 
temporary fkimming thro’ the air to a confiderable 
diftance, is not confined to this genus only, but takes 
place in fome fpecies of Sc orpicna, Trigla, &c. 
The common Flying-Fifli is generally about the 
fize of a Flerring. 
