LITTLE GURNARD. 49 



ACANTHOPTERYGII. WITH HARD CHEEKS. 



THE LITTLE GURNARD. 



Triglu pocciloplera, Le Petit Perlon, Cuv. et VALENC. Hist. Nat. des Poiss. 



t. iv. p. 47. 

 ,, ,, The Little Gurnard, THOMP. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1837, p. 61. 



AMONG some small fish taken in the summer of 1815 at 

 Youghal in Ireland, and submitted by Mr. Ball to the exa- 

 mination of Mr. William Thompson, the latter gentleman 

 found a small specimen of a Gurnard about two inches long, 

 which on comparison with, was found to differ from, Trigla 

 cuculus, lineala? hirundo, and gurnardus, but agreed in 

 every character with the Trigla pasciloptera of Messrs. Cu- 

 vier and Valenciennes, as given in their work on the Natural 

 History of Fishes, vol. iv. p. 47, quoted above, which fish 

 had only at that time been taken at Dieppe. M. Valen- 

 ciennes, at my request, very kindly sent me over a beautiful 

 coloured drawing of this species, and comparing this represen- 

 tation with the small specimen from Youghal which had been 

 entrusted to me, I am also induced to consider it identical, 



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