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FATHER-LASHER. Class IV. 



fpines : on the throat are a number of fhort white 

 beards. 



The teeth are very minute, fituated in the jaws. 



The body is octagonal, arid covered with a 

 number of ftrong bony crufts, divided into feveral 

 compartments, the ends of which project into a 

 fharp point, and form feveral echinated lines along 

 the back and fides from the head to the tail. 



The firft dorfal fin confifts of fix fpiny rays : the 

 fecond is placed juft behind the firft, and confifts 

 of feven foft rays. 



The pectoral fins are broad and rounded, and 

 are compofed of fifteen rays. 



99. Father- 

 lasher. 



Scorpios. 0<vid. Halieut. 116. 

 La Scorpene. Belon, 242. 

 Scorpius marinus, Waelkuke, 



Buloffe, Schorp-fifche. 



$chone<velde> 67. tab, 6. 

 Scorpaenae Belonii fimilis Cor- 



nub. Father-lafher. Wil. 



Jcth. 158. Rati Jyn. pifc. 



145. Scorpius Virginian us. 



Idem. 142. Wil. Ictb, 



App, 25. 

 Cottus fcorpius. C. capite 



fpinis pluribus, maxilla fu- 



periore paulo longiore. Lin, 



fyjl, 452.^ 

 Rot-iimpa, Skrabba; Skialry- 



ta. Faun. Suec. No. 323. 

 Ulke. Crantz. Greenl. I. 95. 



Gronov. Zoopb. No. 268. 

 Sea Scorpion. Edw. 284. 



THIS fifh is not uncommon on the rocky coafts 

 of this ifland : it lurks under (tones, and will 

 take a bait. 

 Descrip. It does not grow to a large fize, feldom exceed- 

 ing (as far as we have feen in the, fpecimens that 

 are taken on our fhores) eight or nine inches. 



The 



