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LABRID.f:. 



ACANTHOPTERYGII. LABRIDjE. 



THE GOLDFINNY, OR GOLDSINNY. 



Crenilabrus Cornubicus, Risso, Hist. t. iii. p. 325, sp. 233. 



Labrus, ,, Goldsinny, Penn. Brit. Zool. vol. iii. p. 339, pi. 58. 



,, Cornubius, Goldfinny, Don. Brit. Fish. pi. 72. 



,, Cornubicus, ,, Montagu's MS. 



,, ,, Corkwing, Couch, Loudon Mag. Nat. Hist. vol. v. 



p. 17, fig. 4. 



The Goldfinny has been called Cornubius, Cornubi- 

 cus, and Cornubiensis, and though supposed originally, as 

 its name would seem to imply, to be exclusively Cornish, it 

 is not confined to that western part of England. Montagu 

 and others have taken it frequently in Devonshire ; and it 

 has been obtained as far east as Beachy-head. The mouth 

 is small ; the teeth regular ; the eye of moderate size ; the 

 serrations on the edge of the preoperculum very strongly 

 marked ; " the lateral line is straight till it reaches the 

 posterior part of the dorsal fin, where it deflects," says 

 Colonel Montagu, " almost at right angles, and again turns 

 at a similar angle to go to the tail fin, dividing that part 

 equally." 



" This fish varies in colour, but the shape is like that 

 figured in the British Zoology. It is generally more or less 



