CORKWING. 329 



" This fish varies in colour, but the shape is like that 

 figured in the British Zoology. It is generally more or less 

 green or yellowish ; darkest on the back ; the sides generally 

 marked with longitudinal lines of a darker colour, mostly 

 green, but sometimes not very conspicuous. The dark spot 

 at the base of the caudal fin, on the lateral line, appears to be 

 a constant specific character. One fish, about three inches 

 long, has the dorsal and anal fins mottled with purplish 

 brown." 4 



The fin -rays are 



D. 16 + 8 : P. 14 : V. 1 +5 : A. 3 + 10 : C. 14. 



My own specimens of this fish are of various sizes, mea- 

 suring from one inch and a half to four inches : and, as far 

 as my own observations have gone, the dark spot on the side 

 of the fleshy portion of the tail, at the end of the lateral line 

 close to the base of the caudal rays, is a constant character. 



Misled by the British Zoology, vol. iii. pages 339 and 

 340, where Pennant has given the figure and the enumeration 

 of the fin-rays of this fish, the Corkwing, under the name 

 and with part of the description of the Goldsinny of Jago, 

 I have in the former edition of this work called this fish, by 

 mistake, the Goldsinny. Specimens of the true Goldsinny 

 of Jago having since come into my possession, I have now 

 corrected the error made in the name. 



Mr. Thompson has found this fish on the coast of Ireland, 

 and Dr. Parnell has obtained specimens at Brixham of seven 

 and eight inches in length, with the lateral tail spot well 

 developed in each. Dr. Parnell has also occasionally met 

 with it in the Firth of Forth, and Professor Nilsson considers 

 it common on the coast of Norway and in the Baltic, where 

 it attains the length of ten inches. 



