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WITH HARD CHEEKS. 



ACANTHOPTERYGII. 



WITH HARD CHEEKS. 



BLOCK'S GURNARD. 



Trigla B/oc/m, YARRELL. 



,, cuculus, BLOCH, pt. ii. pi. 59. 



)( ,, Cuv. et VALENC. Hist. Nat. des Poiss. t. iv. p. 67. 



,, ,, Red Gurnard, PENN. Brit. Zool. vol. iii. p. 373, pi. 66. 



M ,, ,, MONTAGU, Mem. Wern. Soc. vol. ii. pt. ii. 



p. 457. 



,, FLEM. Brit. An. p. 215, sp. 153. 



,, BLOCH. JENYNS, Brit. Vert. p. 343. 



Two species of Red Gurnards having received the trivial 

 name of cuculus, the first given by Linnaeus, the second by 

 Bloch, and both species entitled to a place in this work, I 

 have followed the practice usually adopted in such cases, and 

 propose for the second the name of its describe! 1 , as a tribute 

 due to the author of the most valuable work on Ichthyology 

 that has yet been completed. 



This second species of Red Gurnard, the T. cuculus of 

 Bloch, not the T. cuculus of Linnaeus, and which, for the 

 reason assigned, as well as for distinction, is here called 

 Bloch's Gurnard, is not common as a British species on 

 some parts of the coast. Pennant, by whom it is shortly 

 described, and who has added a figure, as quoted above, and 



