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ACANTHOPTERYGJl. 



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THE SMALL-MOUTHED WRAS^, 



OR ROCK COOK. 



Crenilabrus exoletus. 



Lahrui eavleuis, Linn. Syst. Nat. p. 479, sp. 33. 



,, ,, ,, Faun. Suec. p. 117, sp. 331. 



MuLLER, Prod. Zool. JJan. p. 46, sp. 386. 

 Fab. Faun. Gioenl.p. 166, sp. 120. 

 ,, Retz, Faun. Suec p. 335, sp. 67. 



,, ,, Nils. Prod. Icht. Scand. p. 77, sp. 7. 



,, ,, Fries et Ekst. Scand. Fish. pt. ii. pi. 3, fig. 2. 



Crenitalirus micrnstomu. Small-mouthed Wrasie, Thomvson , Zool. Pioc. 1<')37. 



p. 55. 

 Mag. Zool. & liot. 

 vol. ii, p. 446, pi. 14. 

 ,, ,, Rock Cook, Couch, Cornisli Fauna, p. 39. 



Soon after the publication of the British Fislics, Mr. 

 Coucli very kindly supplied me Avitli two examples of this 

 Small-mouthed Wrasse, a species which I had not till then 

 seen, and which on the Cornisli coast is called the Rock 

 Cook, where it is not so common as the Corkwing (Creni- 

 labrus Cnrnubicus), nor does it take a bait like that fish, but 

 is generally caught in the pots set for crabs. Since that 

 time Mr. Thompson has recorded the occurrence of this spe- 

 cies in two northern localities in Ireland, at Cairnlough in 



