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WITH HARD CHEEKS. 



ACANTHOPTERYGII. 



WITH HARD CHEEKS. 



THE STREAKED GURNARD, 



FRENCH GURNARD, AND ROCK GURNARD. 



Trigla lineata, Linn^us. 



„ Adriatica, Gmelin. 



„ lineata, Cuv. et Valenc. Hist. Nat. des Poiss. t. iv. p. 34. 



„ ,, Block, pt. x. pi. 354. 



„ „ Streaked Gurnard, Penn. Brit. Zool.vol. iii. p. 377, pi. 66. 



,, ,, ,, ,, DojJ. Brit. Fish. pi. iv. 



,, Adriatica, ,, ,, Flem. Brit. An.p. 215, sp. 150. 



The Streaked Gurnard is the fourth species of the 

 British Gurnards having large pectoral fins reaching beyond 

 the vent, and which four species have here been placed in 

 succession, the more readily to distinguish them from the two 

 species hereafter to be described, which have short pectoral 

 fins. 



In the Gurnard now to be noticed, the head is much 

 shorter, the profile more vertical, and the arming spines of 

 the head but little produced, while the whole surface of the 



