CRESTED BLENNY. 233 



AUANTHOPTERYGII. GOBIOID^E. 



THE CRESTED BLENNY. 



Blennius palmicornis, CUVIER, Regne An. t. ii. p. 237. 

 ,, galerita, STROM. LINNAEUS. GMELIN. 



,, ,, Crested Blenny, PENN. Brit. Zool. vol. iii. p. 276, pi. 39. 



,, ' FLEM. Brit. An. p. 207, sp. 122. 



,, ,, NILSSON, Ichth. Scand. p. 102. 



I AM indebted to the kindness of Dr. George Johnston, 

 of Berwick-upon-Tweed, for the only specimen of this fish 

 I have ever seen ; and it proves to be a valuable acquisition, 

 by affording an opportunity of giving a detailed descrip- 

 tion of the species, which, from the evidence to be quoted, 

 I am induced to believe to have been first confounded by 

 Strom, and afterwards by Linnaeus, with the true galerita 

 of Rondeletius, the alauda cristata sive galerita of Wil- 

 lughby and Ray. 



Linnseus, in the tenth edition of his Syst. Nat. 1758, 

 quotes Artedi only for his Blennius galerita,, but without 

 giving any number of fin-rays ; the account of Artedi, taken 

 from Rondeletius, not including that part of the subject. 

 In 1762, Strom published his account of the Fishes of the 

 extreme North- Western portion of the coast of Norway 



