SAPPHIRINE GURNARD. 621 



black spot; the second tinged near its edge with 



yellow: native of the European n<l ( .,tr< ni< <l 

 as a food. 



ASIATIC GURNARD. 



Trigla Asiatica. T. argentea, digitis qitaternls. 

 Silvery Gurnard, with quadruple fingers. 

 Trigla Asiatica. Lin. Gmcl. 



BODY smooth ; of a silvery colour : snout smooth 

 and prominent : anterior gill-covers serrated : pecto- 

 ral fins falcated. Native of the Indian seas. 



SAPPHIRINE GURNARD. 



Trigla Hirundo. T. griseo-fusca, subtus argentea, digitis ternis, 

 pinnis pectoralibus maximis olivacds cceruleo-mficulafis. 



Grey-brown Gurnard, silvery beneath, with triple fingers, and 

 very large olivaceous pectoral fins spotted with blue. 



Trigla Hirundo. Lin. Sapphirine Gurnard. Brit. Zvol. Tub- 

 Fish. Will. 



SIZE equal to that of the grey Gurnard: sc.-;ilrs 

 middle-sized: lateral line rough : pectoral fins very 

 large, of a violaceous olive, sometimes, accord ing to 

 Mr. Pennant, richly edged and spotted \viih Mue : 

 native of the European seas, occasionally sprin 

 out of the water to some distance by means of its 

 large pectoral fins. 



