Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 January 2013
In the beginning of July last, I obtained, from the Frith of Forth, a species of bream, which has not been mentioned by naturalists as inhabiting the British seas. A few days after, I procured, from the same quarter, a second specimen of the same species, each exhibiting a conspicuous dark violet-coloured spot at the base of the upper part of the pectoral fins. (See Plate VI.)
On consulting the continental works on Ichthyology, I find this bream to agree best with the description Baron Cuvier has given of the Pagellus acarne, an inhabitant of the Mediterranean; but, as no figure of the fish accompanies his description, the discrimination of the species is rendered somewhat uncertain.
page 149 note * I am informed by Dr Neill that it is the Mugil cephalis of Donovan, now supposed to be the Mugil capito of Cuvier.
page 153 note * Stark in Edin. New Phil. Jour. Oct. 1830, p. 327.
page 154 note * Bearing cæca,—the cæca being more numerous than in any of its congeners.
page 155 note * Yarrell's British Fishes, vol. ii.