. A New system of the natural history of quadrupeds, birds, fishes and insects . (jlBBOUS W-RASS. THE WRASSE. 221 the requifites for that prooefs are found to belong tothem. Their food alfo is of fuch a nature, that after thefirll comminution in the mouth, it has no farther occa-lion to be brought back there to undergo a fecond mafli-cation. Pliny indeed afTerts, that the fcari eat grafs andweeds ; which, if true, would give a fliew of probabilityto the rumination of tiiefe fitbes ; but unhappily the fadi,in mofl kinds of thefe fiflics, feems as ill founded as theopinion which it is adduced to
. A New system of the natural history of quadrupeds, birds, fishes and insects . (jlBBOUS W-RASS. THE WRASSE. 221 the requifites for that prooefs are found to belong tothem. Their food alfo is of fuch a nature, that after thefirll comminution in the mouth, it has no farther occa-lion to be brought back there to undergo a fecond mafli-cation. Pliny indeed afTerts, that the fcari eat grafs andweeds ; which, if true, would give a fliew of probabilityto the rumination of tiiefe fitbes ; but unhappily the fadi,in mofl kinds of thefe fiflics, feems as ill founded as theopinion which it is adduced to fupport f. Belon feems to have adopted the notion of pliny^ asfar as the food of the fcarus is concerned; for he ailerts,that it is only found around the ifiand of Crete^ the feain other parts not producing the marine plant uponwhich it fublifts. Gefnei\ and feveral of the ancients,believed that this fpecies, as well as fome others, enjoyedintervals of deep in their fubaqueous retreats ; an afTer-tion which receives no credit from the conformation ofthe eye ; which being deprived both of eye
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