. A New system of the natural history of quadrupeds, birds, fishes and insects . COMMON \\KKVt:R SHE DRAGONET. 173 often found in the ftomach of the cod-fifh. It breatherin the manner of the cetaceous fiQies, by means of twoorifices in the crown of the head, through which it forcesthe water received by the mouth *. The ventral fins are jugular, and placed before the pec-toral, a circumftance by which all the fifti of this divifioaare diHinguifhed; they are placed at a dillance from eachother, are broad, and of one piece. The peftoral fins areround, of a light brown colour, the rays aculeated,
. A New system of the natural history of quadrupeds, birds, fishes and insects . COMMON \\KKVt:R SHE DRAGONET. 173 often found in the ftomach of the cod-fifh. It breatherin the manner of the cetaceous fiQies, by means of twoorifices in the crown of the head, through which it forcesthe water received by the mouth *. The ventral fins are jugular, and placed before the pec-toral, a circumftance by which all the fifti of this divifioaare diHinguifhed; they are placed at a dillance from eachother, are broad, and of one piece. The peftoral fins areround, of a light brown colour, the rays aculeated, and ex-tending beyond the membrane that connects them likelaunces. The dorfal fins are two ; the firft of a form fo Angu-lar, that it at once diftinguilhes this fpecies from every firft ray is cetaceous, and extends in a curvated dl-reftionj almoft as far as the tail. The rays of the feconddorfal fin are of an equal length, except the laft, whichextends a confiderable way beyond the reft : The analSn is placed exaftly oppofite to it, and refembles it verynearly, bot
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