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A CA NTHOPTE R YGIJ. GOB JOID/E. 





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THE CRESTED BLENNY. 



lilennius palmiconiis, Cuvif.r, Kegne An. t. ii. p. 237. 

 ,, galerita, Strom. Linnaeus. Gmelin. 



M ,1 Crested Blenny, Penn. Brit. Zool. vol. iii. p. 276, pi. 3P. 



,, ,, ,, ,, Flem. Brit. An. p. 207, sp. 122. 



,, ,, NiLssoN, Ichth. Scand. p. 102. 



I AM indebted to the kindness of Dr. George Johnston, 

 of Berwick-upon-Tweed, for the only specimen of this fish 

 I have ever seen ; and it proves to be a valuable acquisition, 

 by affording an opportunity of giving a detailed descrip- 

 tion of the species, which, from the evidence to be quoted, 

 I am induced to believe to have been first confounded by 

 Strom, and afterwards by Linnaeus, with the true galerita 

 of Rondeletius, the alauda cristala sive galerita of Wil- 

 lugliby and Ray. 



Linnaeus, in the tenth edition of his Syst. Nat. 1758, 

 quotes Artedi only for his Blennius galerita, but without 

 giving any number of fin-rays ; the account of Artedi, taken 

 from Rondeletius, not including that part of the subject. 

 In 1762, Strom published his account of the Fishes of the 

 extreme North- Western portion of the coast of Norway 



