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of the North Atlantic to the Mediterranean, where it decreases in nnmbers as we 

 proceed towards the east. 



In the Orkneys found close in shore where the cliffs are high and the water 

 deep (Low), but it is not common in Orkneys and Zetland (W. Baikie) : pretty 

 frequent during summer off Banffshire (Edward) : St. Andrew's (Mcintosh) : 

 Firth of Forth rare (Parnell), but occasional in North Berwick. Thompson 

 recorded this species from Ayrshire and Wigton, and Mcintosh from North Uist, 

 while he likewise observes that it is occasionally brought from deep waters at 

 St. Andrew's, while many young are seen during autiimn in the rock pools. 



In Yorkshire resident and abundant (Yorkshire Vertebrata) : sometimes 

 appearing during the summer in great shoals off Filey Bridge (Pennant) : a few 

 taken at Flamborough in October (J. Cordeaux, Zool. 1868, p. 1027) : a green 

 variety in the Wisbeach Museum was taken in the Norfolk estuary, and another 

 by Mr. Cresswell off Hunstanton. These wrasses have also been recorded from 

 Lynn Roads, November 14th, 1869 (E. King), Yarmouth, April 15th, 1868 

 (Gunn), and likewise some young about 8 inches in length captured by a hook 

 and line in the outer harbour of Lowestoft, in August, 1852. Margate, in 

 February, 1870 (H. Lee). The example recorded by Lester (Zool. 1855, xiii, 

 p. 4913), dredged in Swanage Bay, was evidently a small comber. 



In Weymouth abundant, brilliant specimens and some of large size occur 

 frequently in various parts of the bay (P. Gosse) : examples from Plymouth have 

 been received at the British Museum, while it is very common along the Cornish 

 coast. Skerry Isles, north of Anglesea (Donovan) : Swansea Bay (L. Dillwyn). 



In Ireland the most common form and found all round the coast where it is of 

 a rocky character : numerous in Down and Antrim : at Donaghadee it is abundant 

 attaining to as much as 8 lb. in weight, but it is little prized as food. 



The example from which plate lxx was figured is 15j inches long and came 

 from Brixham : No. 1 on plate lxxi was brought from Guernsey by Mr. Carrington 

 and given to me, it is figured life size : while No. 2 is from an example 16^ inches 

 long, taken at Grimsby in May, 1881. I have not obtained larger specimens. 



2. Labrus mixtus, Plate LXXII, fig. 1 male, fig. 2 female. 



Labrus mixtus, Fries och Ekstrom, Skand. Fisk. p. 160, pi. xxxvii and xxxviii 

 (Labrus dispar) ; Nilss. Skand. Faun, iv, pp. 265, 278 ; White Catal. Brit. Fishes, 

 p. 21; Giinther, Catal. iv, p. 74; Roper, An. and Mag. N. Hist. (4), 1869, iv, 

 p. 294 ; Steind. Ich. Span. u. Port. 1868, p. 23 ; Collett, Norges Fiske, p. 91, and 

 Christ, Vid. Selsk. Forh. 1879, p. 61 ; Winther, Ich. Dan. Mar. 1879, p. 26 ; 

 Giglioli, Pesc. Ital. p. 34. 



Synonymy of Males. 



Turdus perbelle pictus and Turdus major varius, Willughby, p. 322, t. X3. 

 Labrus, no. 3 and no. 4 Artedi, Genera, p. 34. Blast aal, Strom. Sondm. i, p. 269. 

 Striped wrasse, Pennant's Brit. Zool. (Ed. 1) iii, p. 249, pi. xlv, and (Ed. 1812) 

 iii, p. 337, pi. lvii. Cook, Penn. 1. c. (Ed. 1766) iii, p. 253, and (Ed. 1812) iii, 

 p. 340. Coquus, Ray, Syn. Pise. p. 163, f. 4. 



Labrus mixtus, Linn. Syst. Nat. i, p. 479 ; Lacep. iii, p. 436 ; Artedi, Gen. 

 p. 34, Syn. 57; Shaw, Zool. iv, p. 507; Gmel. Linn. p. 1297; Risso, Ich. Nice, 

 p. 222, and Eur. Merid. iii, p. 308 : Cuv. and Val. xiii, p. 43 ; Yarrell, Brit. Fishes 

 (Ed. 2) i, p. 317, c. fig. (Ed. 3) i, p. 491 ; Moreau, Poiss. France, iii, p. 96.' 



? Labrus ossiphagus, Linn. Syst. Nat. i, p. 478 ; Bl. Schn. p. 268 ; Lacep. iii, 

 p. 440. 



Labrus coeruleus, Ascan. Ic. pi. xii. 



Labrus variegatus, Gmel. Linn, i, p. 1294; Lacep. iii, pp. 442, 508 ; Donovan, 

 Brit. Fish, i, pi. xxi ; Shaw, Zool. iv, p. 501, pi. lxxi ; Turton, Brit. Fauna, p. 99 ; 

 Risso, Ich. Nice, p. 229 ; Jenyns, Manual, p. 394 ; Yarrell, Brit. Fishes (Ed. 1) i, 

 p. 281, c. fig. ; Thompson, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1835, p. 81, and Nat. Hist. Ireland, iv, 

 p. 124 ; Templeton, Mag. Nat. Hist. (2) 1837, i, p. 410. 



