THE BOOK ABOUT THE SEA GARDENS 



will find the parrot fish, the angel fish, and the 

 trigger fish the most remarkable in shape and 

 colour. 



There are three principal varieties of each of 

 these : 



I. The Common Parrot; Yellow Angel; Tur- 

 bot. 



II. The Rainbow Parrot; Black Angel; Ocean 

 Turbot. 



III. The Blue Parrot; Spanish Angel; Ocean 

 Tally. 



The parrot fish are locally known as pugs, while 

 the red parrot seems to be identifiable only with 

 the Scotch porgy. In the parrot fish the beak is 

 covered with skin, but there are certain other 

 fish similar in most ways to the parrots called 

 rimbers* which have the beak uncovered. It is 

 cloven in the middle and each side is capable of 

 slight movement. The blue rimber is bluish ; the 

 commoner are the brown, and grass-green ones 

 are also met with. 



Turbot is the local appellation of the queen 

 trigger fish, though why the great flat fish, the 

 pride of a thousand kitchens, should share its 

 name with the trigger fish is a matter for the 

 House of Assembly to decide. The turbot is also 

 called the gunfish, owing to the strong upright 



* Rimber is pronounced with a long i. 

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