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zance. Mr. Donovan has recorded a second, taken on the 

 Cornish coast, and mentions another obtained in the Euro- 

 pean seas. Still more recently a specimen was taken in 

 Mount's Bay, a drawing of which was sent to the Zoological 

 Society by Dr. Boase, and a notice of its occurrence appeared 

 in the Proceedings for October 1833, as referred to. 



In Ireland this fish has occurred once on the coast of 

 Waterford. 



Pennant called his fish Icevigatus in the edition of his 

 work published in 1776, and his editor adopted that of 

 lagocephalus in the edition of 1812, referring to Linnaeus 

 and Bloch ; but the figure of the two specimens by Pennant 

 and Mr. Donovan, and the drawing of the third sent to the 

 Zoological Society by Dr. Boase, agree more closely with 

 the figure of the Globe-fish in Grew's Rarities, tab. 7, and 

 the Orbis lagocephalus of Willughby, plate I. 2, which 

 appear to be intended to represent the same fish, and being 

 without spots or stripes, are, I think, distinct from the lagoce- 

 phalus of Linneeus and Bloch, the spots of which are referred 

 to in the description of the one, and both spots and stripes 

 shown in the coloured figure of the other. 



Mr. Donovan, when calling this fish stdlatus, appears not 

 to have been aware that this term had been previously ap- 

 propriated to an Indian species with black spots ; and still 

 considering this fish provisionally as a new species, I propose 

 for it now the name of our highly-esteemed British zoologist, 

 by whom, as far as I am aware, it was first made known. 



" The species of this genus are remarkable for being 

 provided with the means of suddenly assuming a globular 

 form by swallowing air, which, passing into the crop or first 

 stomach, blows up the whole animal like a balloon. The 

 abdominal region being thus rendered the lightest, the body 

 turns over, the stomach being the uppermost part, and the 

 fish floats upon its back, without having the power of direct- 



