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Gurnardus, taken in the open sea oflf Dover."" It is found 

 also in the Mediterranean, and off" the coast of France. 

 It spawns in June, and the eggs are of a reddish orange 

 colour. 



Its ordinary size is about four lines in length ; this is 

 the size of the figures of Roux, and of those of Leach ; 

 but it occasionally grows much larger, as one of the 

 specimens, a male, taken by Mr. Mc Andrew off the Isle 

 of Man, is fully an inch in breadth, by eight-tenths in 

 length. 



