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nreus, with the true galerita of Rondeletius, the alauda cris- 

 tata sive galerita of Willughby and Ray. 



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Since the publication of the first edition of this work, I 

 have received a communication from T. P. Teale, Esq. of 

 Leeds, with a detailed description of another specimen of this 

 Blenny, taken at Redcar in Yorkshire, in September 1835. 

 This example I have since seen, by the kindness of Mr. 

 Teale's brother, who brought the fish to London, and it 

 proved to be a very fine specimen, measuring six inches and 

 three quarters in length. 



Linnaeus, in the tenth edition of his Syst. Nat. 1758, 

 quotes Artedi only for his Blennius galerita, but without 

 giving any number of fin-rays ; the account of Artedi, taken 

 from Rondeletius, not including that part of the subject. 

 In 1762, Strom published his account of the Fishes of the 

 extreme North-western portion of the coast of Norway and 

 its Islands, which, under the name, and with a reference to 

 the galerita of Artedi, contains a Blenny with an enumera- 

 tion of fin-rays, which appears then for the first time, and 

 was probably obtained from a specimen. Linnaeus, in his 

 twelfth edition, 1766, quotes both Artedi and Strom for 

 his Blennius galerita^ adding the number of fin-rays from 

 Strom ; thus coupling the characters of the northern Blenny 

 with those of the Mediterranean galerita of Rondeletius. 



Pennant, who appears to have been the first to obtain 

 on our shore a specimen of the northern Blenny of Strom, 

 referred it to the galerita of Linnaeus. Gmelin in his work 

 followed Linnaeus and Pennant. 



The error of Gmelin was first pointed out by Bloch, 

 Schneider, page 169, note, with a reference also to Lin- 

 naeus and Strom. Cuvier considers the galerita of Ronde- 

 letius to be the same with the B. pavo of Risso^s Hist. t. iii. 

 p. 235, sp. 124 ; a fish having only thirty-six rays in the dor- 

 sal fin, and but twenty-four rays in the anal fin. 



