GREY GURNARD. 



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ACANTHOPTERYGII. 



WITH HARD CHEEKS. 





THE GREY GURNARD. 

 KNOUD OR NOWD. Ireland. CROONER. Scotland. 



Trigla gurnardus, LINNAEUS. BLOCH, pt. ii. pi. 58. 



,, ,, Cuv. et VALENC. Hist. Nat. des Poiss. t. iv. p. 62. 



,, ,, Grey Gurnard, PENN. Brit. Zool. vol. iii. p. 371, pi. 65. 



DON. Brit. Fish. pi. 30. 



FLEM. Brit. An. p. 215, sp. 152. 

 ,, ,, ,, ,, JENYNS, Brit. Vert. p. 342. 



THE GREY GURNARD is much more common than either 

 the Piper or the Streaked Gurnard, and is easily distinguished 

 by its shorter pectoral fins, and by its elongated and slender 

 body, generally of a greenish brown colour, spotted with 

 white above the lateral line. This species was first described 

 by Belon ; there is also a good description in Willughby's 

 Historia Piscium, and an excellent figure in Klein. The 

 Grey Gurnard is taken along the line of our southern coast 

 generally, up the eastern coast going northwards, on the 



