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Lac^pede and HoUard speak of the power of makiug audible sounds 

 attributed to this species by travellers, and which had gained for it the 

 name coclion de mer. I have never had one of them in captivity, but 

 have often observed the same liabit in Ostracion triqueter, which utters 

 frequent and audible grunting sounds when taken from the water. These 

 sounds are similar to those made by several members of the family 

 Tetrodontidt^, familiar to every collector of fishes on the Atlantic coast 

 of the United States. 



OSTEACION QUADEICORNIS, Liunteus. 



Ostracion quadricornis, Lixn. Syst. Nat. ed. s, 17r)8, i, p. 331; ed. xii, 1760, i,p. 408. — 



Bloch, Aiisl. Fische Iclith. iv, 1787, p. 113, pi. cxxxiv. — Gmelix, Linn. Syst. 



Nat. 1788, i, p. 144-i.— Lacepede, op. cit. i, 1798, pp. 442, 468; ed. ii, 1819, ii, p. 



343, pi. XV, fig. 2.— Schneider, Blocli Syst. Iclith. 1801, p. 499.— Shaw, Gen. 



Zool. V, 1804, p. 424.— CuviER, Eegne Animal, ed.i, 1817, p. 154; ed. ii, 1829, 



p. 375.— Kaup, Arch, fiir Naturg. xxi, 1855, p. 218.— Hollard, Ann. Sci. Nat. 



1857, p. 148. — Bleeker, Poiss. Guin<^e, 18G3, p. 20. — Gunther, Cat. Fish Brit. 



Mus. viii, 1870, p. 258. 

 Ostracion quadricorne, Poey, Mem. Hist. Nat. Cuba, ii, 1861, p. .302. 

 Ostracium quadricorne, COPE, Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. 1870, p. 474.— Goode, Cat. Fish 



Bermudas, 1876, p. 24 ; Amer. Journ. Sci. and Arts, 1877, p. 290. 

 Ostracion (Acanthosiracion) quadricornis, Bleeker, Atlas Ichthyologique, 1865, p. 32. 

 Ostracion (Acanthontraeion) quadricorne, Poey, Rep. Fis. Nat. Cuba, ii, 1868, p. 439. 

 AcantliOHlracion quadricorne, PoEY, Enum. Pise. Cubeusium, 1876, p. 174. 

 Lactophrys quadricnrnis, SWAIXSOX, Hist. Nat. Fish and Rept. 1839, ii, p. 324. 

 Ostracion tricornis. LiNX. fide Bleeker, Ned. Tyds. Dierk. ii, p. 298. — Lacepi^de, oj). cit. i, 



1798, p. 465 ; ed. ii, 1819, ii, p. 342, pi. xv, fig. 1. 

 Ostracion Listeri, Lacepi^de, Hist. Nat. Poiss. i, 1798, p. 468, pi. xxiii,fig. 2 (''cop. Wil- 



lughby") ed. ii, 1819, ii, p. 343. 

 Ostracion Hcx-cornutus, Mitchill, Amer. Month. Mag. ii, 1818, j). 328 (desc. of spec, from 



Gulf of Mexico near mouth of Mississipi)i River). 

 Lactophrys sex-cornutus, Storer, Mem. Amer. Acad, ii, p. 498; Syu. 1840, p. 246. 

 Ostracion cornutus (not Bl. or Linn.), Mull, and Trosch. in Schomburgk, Hist. Barba- 

 dos, 1848, p. 677. 

 Ostracion guineensis, Bleeker, Ned. Tyds. Dierk. ii, p. 298 (on young individual). 

 Ostracion Crronovii, Bleeker, 1. c. 

 Ostracion maculatus, Hollard, op. cit. p. 149. 



Species duhia an Acanthostracion maculatum, PoEY, Rep. Fis. Nat. Cuba, ii, 1868, p. 439. 

 Sjyecies duhia an Acanth. quadricorne mas, POEY, Rep. Fis. Nat. Cuba, ii, ]). 439. 

 Acanthostracion pohjgoniun, Poey, Enum. Pise. Cubens. 1876, p. 175. 

 Quamajacee ap^, Marcgrave, Hist, de Brasil, 1648, iv. p. 142 (fide Ca.stelxau, 1. c. p. 99). 

 " Guamaiacu, JoxSTOX^, Pise. tab. xxxvi. fig. 3, tab. xlv, suj). fig. 6," fide Bleeker. 

 "Piscis trianfjularis cornutus clusii, Willughby, Hist. Pise. 1686, xiv, tab. J." 

 Piscis triangulus clusii cornutus, Ray, Syn. Method. Pise. 1713, p. 44. 

 Ostracion triangulatus 2 aculeis in f route et totidem in imo ventre, Artedi, Syn. Pise. 1738, 



p. 85, No. 9 ; Genera Piscium, 1738, p. 56, No. 5. 

 Toro, Parra, Desc. Dif. Piez. Hist. Nat. Cuba, ii, 1787, p. 81, pi. xvii, fig. 2. 

 Piscis triangularis capite cornutus cui e media cauda cutacea aculeus lon'gus erigitus. Lister, 



in App. Wilhighby, oi). cit. p. 19. — Ray, 1. c. 

 Ostracion triangulatus, aculeis duohus in capite et unico longiore su^yernc ad caudam, Artedi, 



1. c. No. 10, Gen. Pise. p. 56, No. 6. 

 "Piscis triangularis maximc cornutus squaniis hcxagonis et radiatis donatus. Lister, I.e. 



p. 15," fide Bleeker. 



