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COOK. 



CUCKOO WRASS. 



Blue-strijjed Wiriss^ 

 Striped Wrass, 



C'oquus, Cook, 



Labrus variegatus, 

 <( « 



" coquus, 

 Lahre tnele, 

 Lahrus nivxtus. 



W. Thompson's Ireland, vol. iv, p. 124. 



Pennant. The Latin trivial names imposed 

 on this fish are more in number than we 

 shall refer to, but we know no reason why 

 the original term applied to it by Jago, 

 who first described it, should not be 

 maintained. 



Jago; Ray's Synopsis Piscium, p. 163, f. 4. 



Donovan; pi. 21, but too stout. 



Jenyns; Manual, p. 394. 



Yakrell; Br. Fishes, vol. i, p. 317. 



Risso. 



LiNN.i:us. GuNTHER; Catalogue Br. M., 

 vol. iv. 



The Cook is one of the commonest of the Wrasses on the 

 west coasts of the kingdom, and in its colours much the most 

 brilliant; but it becomes more rare as we proceed northward, 

 and is scarcely to be met with at the further extremity of the 

 British Islands. I am indebted to the kindness of Mr. Iverach, 

 of Kirkwall, in Orkney, for the information that he has known 

 it caught once at that place, for I suppose this to be the 

 species which he has mentioned in the belief that it was the 

 Lahrus ixivo of Risso, a kind not yet known in the British 

 Islands. According to Nilsson it is not uncommon on the 

 coast of Sweden. 



Its habits in the south and west of England are to perform 

 a partial migration; or, rather, there is a change of quarters 

 according to the season, as being found near the land when 

 the weather grows warm, and through the summer and autumn 

 it is not unfrequently caught by fishing from the shore. It 



