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mote times, in classing together the so-called Mullus barbatus 

 and M. imberbis, will not be found without some excuse; for 

 these two fishes bear considerable resemblance to each other 

 in their general form and colour, as well as habits, and the 

 latter is often caught in the same net with the Surmullet; 

 added to which, when taken it is usual for the barbs of the 

 Mullet to be drawn beneath the throat, thus rendering the 

 resemblance still more close. 



The existence of the three processes or fingers near the 

 pectoral fins in the Streaked Gurnard, might, indeed, have 

 been sufficient at any time to point out the generic difference 

 between them; but it had not that effect even with such 

 observant and systematic naturalists as Artedi, Linnaeus, and 

 Gronovius, who have agreed to class this fish with the 

 Gurnards, (Tr'ujlce,) although Willoughby and Ray had long 

 before marked the distinction between them. 



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