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ineasaring seven and a quarter inches, was three quarters of 

 an inch high: branched like a slag's horn beliind and on the 

 top. Separate threads on the neck : the first ray of the 

 dorsal fin with a branching tuft, the second with a couple of 

 shorter fibres. 



In another specimen the tufts on the head were more 

 divaricated; but in all cases the tendrils [lointed backward. 

 In most of the specimens the colour was a light brown, with 

 a distinct brown line from the base of the anterior supra- 

 ocular process, curving round the anterior margin of the eye, 

 and thence descending below the angle of the mouth. At 

 the upper margin of the gills the outlet is formed by a 

 gathering of the skin into a tube. 



Fin rays, D. 50, 51. P. 14, 14. A. 35, 39. C. 16, IG. 

 V. 3, 2. 



The ventral fins were soft; in one specimen, with three 

 soft rays ; in the other, with two palmate rays. 

 WOLF FISH, Anarrliichas Ivpus, LinnKUS. Fleming's 



Brit. An., p. 208. Jenyns' Man., p. 384. Yarrell's Br. 



F., vol. 1, p. 277, N. E. 



This is a fish of the north sea, and not much disposed to 

 wander from its usual haunts. When therefore I was in- 

 formed that a specimen had been taken at Fowey, I felt 

 inclined to doubt its certainly. But I have since been 

 informed by Mr. J. C. Bellamy, the author of the Natural 

 History of South Devon, that he possesed a specimen taken 

 in the neighbourhood of Plymouth ; and as the usual fis-hing 

 ground of that port, is olF the Cornish land, il renders 

 the report from Fowey more probable, and is in itself some 

 ground for placing this species in our catalogue. 



POLEWIG. 

 TRICKLE GOBY. Gobius minuim. Yarrell's Br. F., 



vol. 1, p. 288, 2nd edition. 



I take this to be the species of Goby, which I have never 

 niet with on our rocky coast, though it may be not uncom- 

 mon at the mouths of our more considerable rivers. My 

 acquaintance with it is confined to ihe Looe ; up which river 

 it advances with the tide, and again retreats with it. They 

 are less than two inches in length, and of the general form 

 of the Gobies; but they arc remarkable in having the eyes 

 on the summit of the head ; uniler jaw rather prominent. 

 They are williout spots, or those regularly tesselaled mark- 

 ings so prettily seen in the double spotted Goby ; but not 

 represented in Mr. Yarrell's figure of the latter fish : a cir- 

 cumstance as regards the last named fisli, that may be ex- 

 plained by our specimens frequenting a rocky shore, which 



