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WITH HARD CHEEKS. 



ACANTHOPTERYGII. 



WITH HARD CHEEKS. 



THE GREY GURNARD. 



KNOUD OR NOWD. Ireland. 



Trigla gurnardus, Itinn^eus. Block, pt. ii. pi. 58. 



„ ,, Cuv. et Valenc. Hist. Nat. des Poiss. t. iv. p. 62. 



,, ,, Grey Gurnard, Penn. Brit. Zool. vol. iii. p. 371, pi. 65. 



„ „ „ „ Don. Brit Fish. pi. 30. 



,, ^ ,, ,, ,, Flem. Brit. An. p. 215, sp. 152. 



The Grey Gurnard is mucli more common tlian either 

 the Piper or the Streaked Gurnard, and is easily distinguished 

 by its shorter pectoral fins, and by its elongated and slender 

 body, generally of a greenish brown colour, spotted with 

 white above the lateral line. This species was first described 

 by Belon ; there is also a good description in Willughby's 

 Historia Piscium, and an excellent figure in Klein. The 

 Grey Gurnard is taken along the line of our southern coast 

 generally, up the eastern coast going northwards, on the 

 coast of Scotland, and at the Orkney Islands ; it is found also 

 in the Baltic and on the west coast of Norway. In 

 Ireland the Grey Gurnard occurs in all the localities which 



