50 WITH HARD CHEEKS. 



ACANTHOPTERYGIL WITH HARD CHEEKS. 



BLOCK'S GURNARD. 



Trigla Blochii, YARRELL. 



,, cuculus, BLOCK, pt. ii. pi. 59. 



,, ' Cuv. et VAI.ENC. Hist. Nat. des Poiss. t. iv. p. 67. 

 ,, Red Gurnard, PENN. Brit. Zool. vol. iii. p. 373, pi. 66. 



,, ,, ,, ,, MONTAGU, Mem. Wern. Soc. vol. ii. pt. ii. 



p. 457. 

 FLEM. Brit. An. p. 215, sp. 153. 



Two species of Red Gurnards having received the trivial 

 name of cuculus, the first given by Linnseus, the second 

 by Bloch, and both species entitled to a place in this work, 

 I have followed the practice usually adopted in such cases, 

 and propose for the second the name of its describer, as 

 a tribute due to the author of the most valuable work on 

 Ichthyology that has yet been completed. 



This second species of Red Gurnard, the T. cuculus of 

 Bloch, not the T. cuculus of Linnaeus, and which, for the 

 reason assigned, as well as for distinction, is here called 

 Bloch's Gurnard, is not common as a British species on 

 some parts of the coast. Pennant, by whom it is shortly 

 described , and who has added a figure as quoted above, and 



