J^;2() HOGUE. 



fifTuio is derived. The specimen itself was nftcrAvards preserved, 

 and is now in the jNIusenni of the Royal Cornwall Institution 

 at Truro. Since that time several examples have been caught 

 at the same place, and one of them was presented to the 

 British Museum by A\\ P. Cocks, Es(^. 



The general habits of this fish bear much resemblance to 

 the others of its family, and especially in its food, which is 

 partly animal — of such snuill creatures as fall in its way. 

 But it also feeds on sea vegetables, and is consequently found 

 to keep chiefly in places where they most abound. Its teeth, 

 the form of which Ave copy from Cuvier, are well fitted to 

 crop these weeds from the rocks; and its intestines arc long, 

 convoluted, and capacious, as is the case with all creatures, 

 as Avell of the land as water, which are in the habit of 

 making vegetables a considerable portion of their food. 



It is said to be an agreeable diet, and hence, we arc told, 

 it meets Avitli a ready sale. 



The Boguc grows to the length of eight or nine inches. 

 Jonston says it reaches to a foot, but Willoughby remarks that 

 he never met with one of so great a length; and yet the 

 example from which our figure and description are taken, 

 measured in extreme length the dimensions assigned to it by 

 the first-named writer. The general form is thick and solid; 

 the head small proportionably to the bulk of the body, and 

 the gape narrow. The teeth are wide, thin, and cutting, of 

 the shape seen in the figure. The greatest depth of the 

 specimen described "vvas closely behind the termination of the 

 pectoral fin, where it measured two inches and seven eighths, 

 and from thence it tapers to the origin of the tail. The eye 

 is larger than in others of its family; cheeks and body with 

 large scales; lateral line high and straight. The dorsal fin is 

 highest at its beginning, and from thence it grows narrow in 

 its progress, as docs also the anal fin; the pectorals rather 

 narrow. The colour along the back, from the snout to the 

 tail, is a bluish purple, mottled along the top of the head, 

 and with tints of pink and vermilion about the eyes. By 

 authors who have studied this fish in its more native haunts, 

 the stripes along the sides arc described as of a brilliant 

 gold-colour, separated by stripes of bright silver; the belly 

 silvery. But in the Cornish example the yellow on the sides 



