THE 
FLYING-FISH. 
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Generic Character. 
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P chloral fins as long as the body. 
Specific Character , &c. 
FL\ ING-FISH with fmall ventral fins, near the 
bread:. 
FLYING-FISH. 
Penn. Brit. Zool. 3. p. 232. pi. 67. 
Der Hochflieger. 
Bloch, ichth. 12. p. 9. pi. 398. 
Abdominales. 
The fifh of this genus, which are very few in 
number, are remarkable for the extreme length and 
lize of their pectoral fins, by which they are enabled 
to fpring occafionally from the water, and to fup- 
port a kind of flight or continued motion thro* the 
air, to the diftance of two or three hundred feet, 
when, the fins becoming dry, they are again obliged 
to commit themfelves to their own element. The 
fpecies here reprefented is a native of the Mediter¬ 
ranean and Atlantic feas, where, to ufe the words of 
an 
