302 ARGENTINE. 



have represented; the hxst-naiued author having overlooked the 

 adipose fin of his Argentina, and the former, prohably misled 

 by the name, by having guessed it to be a fish to which 

 Willoughby's description will not apply. The figure given by 

 Pennant was obtained from a different example from his first 

 notice, but the name which he originally applied to it has 

 been suffered to remain. 



Mr. Yarrell Avas at first content to copy Pennant's figure, 

 but in his second edition he has added others, in which the 

 extent of the fins at least, and especially the anal, do not 

 shew exact similarity; and as the likeness which I produce, 

 although with some imperfection, and Mr. Edward's description, 

 presently to be referred to, are not in all respects similar to 

 either of them, the doubt still remains whether more than 

 one species may not have been obtained in Britain. But 

 leaving this to be decided by future inquiry, it further 

 appears that this fish is far from being so scarce as was 

 formerly supposed, at least within its own particular range. 

 Low mentions it as found in Orkney, Mr. Peach obtained 

 it at Wick, and Mr. T. Edward at Banfl^. At Redcar forty 

 examples Avere obtained in the months of January and March, 

 and others since. It has been obtained in Ireland, and five 

 examples were procured by Mr. E. T. Higgins at Weston, on 

 the north coast of Somersetshire, where they were taken in 

 nets set for shrimps; and it is from one of these our figure 

 and description have been taken. The example was, indeed, 

 somewhat injured, and in consequence it is not offered as 

 altogether a perfect representation; but it is judged better to (j 



give a resemblance of an original specimen than a mere copy, 

 the more especially as our example was perfect in those 

 particulars, from imperfection in which, as regards others, the 

 principal doubts have sprung; to which we add that the highest 

 amount of accuracy in description will be secured, by bringing 

 together our description and those of Dr. AV. B. Clarke in 

 the "Magazine of Natural History," already referred to, and 

 another by that indefatigable inquirer Mr. Thomas Edward, of 

 Banff", as contained in the "Zoologist" for 1SG3, 



This species appears to be limited to the northern portion of 

 the Atlantic, and no instance is recorded of its having been 

 seen on the shores of Devonshire and Cornwall, where we may 



