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up, and feeds on small fishes and insects, the movement of the cirri in this situation 

 probably attracting them. 



Gen. 88. TRIGLA, Lin. 



Head cubical, covered with a bony plate, formed by the enormous 

 suborbitaries ; operculi, preoperculi, occiput, and shoulder 

 generally terminating behind in a spine ; teeth pointed, crowd- 

 ed like the pile of velvet ; scales small ; lower rays of the 

 pectoral fins detached from the others ; swimming-vessel bi- 

 lobate. 



T. cuculus, Lin. The Cuckovv Gurnard. Body slender, red above, 

 more or less marked by whitish transverse bands ; belly silvery ; 

 lateral line of broad silvery scales ; fins of the breast and tail, 

 which is forked, reddish ; ventral, anal, and dorsal fins white, 

 the last spotted with yellow ; a black spot on the first dorsal fin. 

 12 inches long. Inhabits European seas. Shaw, iv. pi. 90. 



T. gurnardus, Bloch. The Gray Gurnard. Body above deep gray, 

 with blackish and red spots, beneath silvery j lateral line compos- 

 ed of rounded whitish scales, with a dusky central spot. 1 to 2 

 feet long. Inhabits European seas. B. Sharv, iv. pi. 90. 



T. lineata, Bloch. Lineated Gurnard. Head black, and sides deep 

 red, with numerous transverse lines and deeper spots ; on each 

 side of the dorsal fins a row of broad serrated processes of a yellow 

 colour ; lateral line similar ; pectoral and first dorsal fins with 

 black spots ; anal and second dorsal fins bluish ; tail slightly lu- 

 nated. Inhabits Mediterranean sea. B. Block, pi. 354. 



T. hirundo, Lin. Body brown, rounded ; snout slightly notched ; 

 pectoral fins equal in length to the third of the body, and spotted 

 with bluish. 1 to 2 feet long. Inhabits European seas. B 

 Bloch, pi. 60. 



T. lyra, Lin. Body rose-red, silvery beneath ; snout strongly di- 

 vided into two dentated lobes. 1 to 2 feet long. Inhabits Eu- 

 ropean seas. B. Bloch, pi. 350. 



T. pini, Bloch. Body reddish, except the belly, which is yellow- 

 ish ; ventral fins red, the others bluish j lateral line with thin 

 transverse processes like the leaves of the pine. Block, pi. 355. 



T. punctata, Bloch. Body dotted with numerous red points ; pec- 

 toral fins very large, blue ; the others yellow. Inhabits Ameri- 

 can seas. Block, pi. 353. 



Gen. 89. PERISTEDION, Lacep. Trigla, Lin. 

 Body completely mailed with osseous plates ; suborbitary pro- 

 longations forming a forked snout ; jaws without teeth, and 

 branched cirri under the lower ; two dorsal fins, united at 

 their base, the anterior with longest rays. 



P. cataphractum, Cuv. Body pale-red, octagonal, completely mail- 

 ed with bony plates j ventral fins gray, the pectorals blackish ; 

 rays of the first dorsal fin terminating in filaments. 12 inches 

 long. Inhabits Mediterranean sea Block, pi. 349. 





