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to his friend Mr. Selby, became the subject of a notice in the 

 first volume of the Magazine of Zoology and Botany, as 

 quoted under the figure of the fish here given. It has also 

 been taken in the Forth. 



This fish Mr. Selby most correctly referred to the Gold- 

 sinny of Jago, in the Synopsis of our countryman and natu- 

 ralist John Ray, who appears to have been the first to make 

 it known ; but this fish being also a northern species, was 

 afterwards figured and described in the various works here 

 quoted among the synonymes. Since the occurrence of the 

 specimens on our eastern coast, Mr. Thompson of Belfast 

 has obtained two others at Bangor, County of Down, where 

 they were caught, with one or two other species of Wrasse, 

 by angling boys. I have received from T. S. Rudd, Esq. 

 two beautifully coloured examples of this fish, which were 

 taken on the Yorkshire coast, from the finest of which the 

 figure here engraved was drawn ; one specimen has also been 

 taken on the coast of North Wales by my friend Mr. Tho- 

 mas Eyton. Among some Labri supplied me by Mr. Couch 

 from Cornwall, before the occurrence of the specimens in 

 Berwick Bay, was a small fish of this species, but being by 

 accident somewhat discoloured and distorted, and this species 

 differing in colour when young, I did not then recognize it as 

 the Lutjanus rupestris of Bloch, but figured it as a vignette 

 to the Scale-rayed Wrasse of the British Fishes, vol. i. p. 300. 

 Since that time Mr. Couch has very kindly supplied me with 

 more small specimens, which will enable me to describe this 

 fish as it appears at different stages of its growth, premising, 

 however, that I have seen no examples of more than seven 

 inches in length. 



This species is taken occasionally in the Baltic ; in Swe- 

 den, Denmark, and Norway, where it is sometimes caught by 

 angling from rocks, as in this country. Another coloured 

 figure of this fish has recently appeared in the new work of 



