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LABRID/E. 



ACANTIIOPTERYGII. 



LABRIDJE. 



THE SMALL-MOUTHED WRASSE. 



OR ROCK COOK. 



Crenilabrus exoletus. 



Lahriis e.r 



letus, 



Creniliihrus microstnma , 



Linn. Syst. Nat. p. 479, sp. 33. 



,, Faun. Suec. p. 117, sp. 331 

 MuLLER, Prod. Zool. Dan. p. 46, sp. 386. 

 Fab. Faun. Gioenl.p. 166, sp. 120. 

 Retz, Faun. Suec. p. 335, sp. 67. 

 Nils. Prod. Icht. Scand. p. 77, sp. 7. 

 Fries et Ekst. Scand. Fish. pt. ii. pi. 3, fig. 2. 

 Small-mouthed HVwsie, Thompson, Zoo). Proc. 1837. 



p. 55. 

 Mag. Zool. &Bot. 

 vol. ii. p. 446, pi. 14. 

 Bock Cook, CoufH, Cornisli Fauna, p. 39. 



Soon after the publication of the British Fishes, Mr. 

 Conch very kindly supplied me with two examples of this 

 Small-mouthed Wrasse, a species Avhicli I had not till then 

 seen, and which on the Cornish coast is called the Rock 

 Cook, where it is not so common as the Cork wing {Creni- 

 labrus Cornuhicus)^ nor does it take a bait like that fish, but 

 is generally caught in the pots set for crabs. Since that 

 time Mr. Thompson has recorded the occurrence of this spe- 

 cies in two northern localities in L'eland, at Cairnlough in 



