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Lac^pede and Hollard speak of the power of making audible sounds 

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

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

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

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

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

 Tetrodontidse, familiar to every collector of fishes on the Atlantic coast 

 of the United States. 



OSTRACION QUADRICORNIS, Liungeus. 



Ostracion quadricornis, LiNN. Syst. Nat. ed. x, 17r)8, i, p. 331; ed. sii, 1766, i,p. 408.— 



Bloch, Ausl. Fische Ichth. iv, 1787, p. 113, pi. cxxxiv. — Gmelix, Linn. Syst. 



Nat. 1788, i, p. 1442.— LAc6pi:DE, op. cit. i, 1798, pp. 442, 468 ; ed. ii, 1819, ii, p. 



343, pi. XV, fig. 2.— Schneider, Blocli Syst. Ichth. 1801, p. 499.— Shaw, Gren. 



Zool. V, 1804, p. 424.— CuviER, R5gne Animal, ed.i, 1817, p. 154; ed.ii,1829, 



p. 375. — Kaup, Arcli. fiir Natiirg. xxi, 1855, p. 218. — Hollard, Ann. Sci. Nat. 



1857, p. 148.— Bleeker, Poiss. Guin^e, 1863, p. 20. — GtJNTHER, Cat. Fish Brit. 



Mus.viii,1870,p.258. 

 Ostracion quadricorne, Poey, Mem. Hist. Nat. Cuba, ii, 1861, p. 362. 

 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 (Acanthostracion) quadricornis, Bleeker, Atlas Ichthyologique, 1865, p. 32. 

 Ostracion (Acanthostracion) quadricorne, POEY, Rep. Fis. Nat. Cuba, ii, 1868, p. 439. 

 Acanthostracion quadricorne, Poey, Euum. Pise. Cubensium, 1876, p. 174. 

 Lactophrys quadricornis, Swainson, Hist. Nat. Fish and Rept. 18.39, ii,j>. 324. 

 Ostracion tricornis, Linn, fide Bleeker, Ned. Tyds. Dierk. ii, p. 298. — Lac^.p^de, op. cit. 1, 



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

 Ostracion Listeri, LAC:^pi:DE, Hist. Nat. Poiss. i, 1798, p. 468, pi. xxiii, fig. 2 ("cop. Wil- 



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

 Ostracion sex-cornutue, Mitchill, Amer. Month. Mag. ii, 1818, p. 328 (desc. of spec, from 



Gulf of Mexico near mouth of Mississippi River). 

 Lactophrys sex-cornutus, Storer, Mem. Amer. Acad, ii, p. 498; Syu. 1846, 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 Gronovii, Bleeker, 1. c. 

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



Species dubia an Acanthostracion maeulaium, Poey, Rep. Fis. Nat. Cuba, ii, 1868, p. 439. 

 Species dubia an Acanth. quadricorne mas, Poey, Rep. Fis. Nat. Cuba, ii, p. 439. 

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

 Quamajacee api, Marcgrave, Hist, de Brasil, 1648, iv. p. 142 (fide Castelnau, 1. c. p. 99). 

 " Guamaiacu, Jonston, Pise. tab. xxxvi. fig. 3, tab. xlv, sup. fig. 6," fide Bleeker. 

 "Piscis trianfiularis cornutus clusii, WiLLUGHBY, Hist. Pise. 1686, xiv, tab. J." 

 Piseis triangulus cluni cornutus, Ray, Syn. Method. Pise. 1713, p. 44. 

 Ostracion triangulatus 2 aculeis infronte et totldem in imo ventre, Artedi, Syn. Pise. 1738, 



p. 85, isTo. 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 aculcus longus erigiius. Lister, 



in App. Willughby, op. cit. p. 19. — Ray, 1. c. 

 Ostradon triangulatus, aculeis duobus in capite et unico longiore superne ad caudam, Artedi, 



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

 "Piscis triangularis maxime cornutus squamis hexagonis et radiaih douatus, Lister, I.e. 



p. 15," fide Bleeker. 



