CHAPTER XXXI. 



Tlie Dragonets. — The Common Angler. — Tlie Wrasses. — The Gar- Fish. — 

 Tlie Smelts.— The Herring. — The Sprat.— The Pilchard. — The 

 Anchovy. — The Cod and others of the Gadi — The Hake.— The Lings. 

 —The Rocklings.— The Torsk.— The Forked Bfards— And other 

 Acanthopterygious and Malacopterygions Fishes allied to them. 



THE Gemmeous Dragonet {Vanlig SJo-kock, Sw. ; 

 CalUomjinus Lyra, Linn.), so called from its brilliant 

 colours, of wliicli some idea raav be formed by the accom- 

 panying illustration taken from the living fish by M. 

 Wilhelm von "Wright, was found, though sparingly, in our 

 Skargard, as also on the western coast, from the Sound 

 to Drontheim, lat. 63°. According to LinnEeus, it is also 

 met with in the Baltic, but Kroyer seems doubtful on this 

 point. From its extraordinarily high dorsal fin, suggesting 

 the idea that the same use can be made of it by the fish 

 as by a bird of its wings, the fishermen on the coast of 

 Bohus, and that of Norway, call it the Flyg-fisk, or flying- 

 fish. The male is considerably larger than the female, 

 measuring, when full grown, from ten to twelve inches 

 in length, whereas the latter seldom attains more than 



