or the Flying-Fish, in ichthyology, a genus belonging to the order of abdominates. The head is fleshy, and it has no teeth. It has 10 radii in the branchiostegal membrane; the body is whitish, and the belly is angular; the pectoral fins, the instruments of flight, are very large. When pursued by any other fish, it raises itself from the water by means of these long fins, and flies in the air to a considerable distance, till the fins dry, and then it falls down into the water. It is a fish that seems to lead a most miserable life. In its own element, it is perpetually harassed by the dorados and other fish of prey. If it endeavors to avoid them by having recourse to the air, it either meets its fate from the gulls, or the albatross, or is forced down again into the mouth of the inhabitants of the water, who, below, keep pace with its aerial excursion. Neither is it unfrequent that whole shoals of them fall on board of ships that navigate the seas in warm climates. It is therefore apparent, that nature in this creature hath supplied it with instruments which frequently bring it into the destruction it strives to avoid, by having recourse to an element unnatural to it.