* ἀβραμις, a fish found in the sea and the Nile, perhaps the bream, Opp. Hal. i. 244. Liddell & Scott.
[ Cap. ij.]
ANguilla / the Ele is lyke a serpent of fascyon, & may leue eight yere, & without water vi. dayes whan the wind is in the northe / in the winter they wyll haue moche water, & that clere / Is of no sex; amonge them is nouther male nor female / for they become fisshes of the slyme of other fisshes / they must be flayne / they suffer a longe dethe / is best roasted. they be best rosted, but it is longe or they be ynouge / the droppinge of it is gode for paines in the eares.
[ Cap. iij.]
ALec, the heringe, is a Fisshe of the see / & very many be taken betweene bretayn & germaia / & also in denmarke aboute a place named schonen / And he is best from the beginnynge of August to december / Is delicious when fresh, (Russell, [l. 748]) or salted. and when he is fresshe taken / he is a very delicious to be eten. And also whan he hath ben salted he is a specyall fode vnto man / He can nat leue without water, Dies when it feels the air. for as sone as he feleth the ayre he is dede / & they be taken in gret hepis togeder / & specially where they se light, there wyll they be, than so they be taken with nettis / which commeth be the diuyne Prouydens of almighty God.
[ Cap. v.]
A Spidochelon / as Phisiologus saith, it is a monstrous thinge in the see, it is a gret whale fisshe, & hath an ouer-growen rowgh skinne / & he is moste parte with his bake on hye aboue the water in such maner that Shipmen cast anchor on him, some shypmen that see him, wene that it is a lytell ylande / & whan they come be it, they cast their ankers upon him / & go out of theyr shippes and make a fire on him. & make a fyre upon hym to dresse theyr metys / and as sone as he feleth the hete of the fyre / He swims away, and drowns them. thanne he swymmeth fro the place, & drowneth them, & draweth the shippe to the grounde / And his proper nature is, whan he hath yonges, that he openeth his mouthe wyde open / & out of it fleeth a swete ayre / to the which the fisshes resorte, and than he eteth them.
[ A Aurata] is a fysshe in the see that hathe a hede shinynge lyke golde.
[ Cap. xi.]
A Huna is a monster of the see very glorisshe, as Albertus saith / what it eteth it tourneth to greas in his body / it hathe no mawe but a bely / & that he filleth so full that he speweth it out agayne / & that can he do so lyghtely / for he hath no necke / When the Ahuna is in danger, whan he is in peryl of dethe be other fisshes / than he onfacyoneth himselfe as rounde as a bowle, he puts his head in his belly, and eats a bit of himself. withdrawynge his hede into his bely / whan he hathe then hounger / He