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GREY GURNARD. Class IV. 



XXXI. 

 GURNARD, 



Nofe Hoping. 



Head covered with flrong bony plates. 

 Seven branchioftegous rays. 



Three (lender appendages at the bafe of the pectoral 

 fins. 



37. Grey. Gurnatus feu Gurnardus gri- 

 feus, the Grey Gurnard. 

 WiL Icth. 279. Rail fyn. 

 fife. 88. 

 Trigla vario roftro diacantho, 

 aculeis geminis ad utrum- 



que oculura. Arted. fynon, 



Trigla Gurnardus, Tr. digitis 

 ternis dorfo maculis nigris 

 rubrifque. Lin* fyfi. 497. 

 Grono'v. Zooph. No. 283. 



'"TpHE nofe pretty long, and Hoping: the end 

 ■*■ bifurcated, and each fide armed with three 

 fhort fpines. 



The eyes very large •, above each were two fliort 

 fpines : the forehead and ^covers of the gills fil- 

 very \ the laft finely radiated. 



The teeth fmall, placed in the lower and upper 

 jaws, in the roof of the mouth, and bale of the 



tongue. 



Noftrils minute, and placed on the fides of the 

 nofe. 



On the extremity of the gill covers was a ftrong, 

 tharp, and long fpine : beneath that, juft above the 

 pectoral fins, another. 



The 



