GREAT FORKED BEARD. 



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SUBBRACHIAL 

 MALACOPTERYGII. 



GADIDM. 



THE GREAT FORKED BEARD. 



FORKED HAKE. HAKe"'s DAME, Comwall. 



Phycisfurcatus, Common Fork Beard, Flem. Brit. An. p. 193, sp- 84. 



„ ,, CuviER, Regne An. t. ii. p. 335. 



Barbus major, Great Forked Beard, Ray, Syn. 163, fig. 7. 



Blennius physis. Forked Hake, Penn. Brit. Zool. vol. iii. p. 259, pi. 35. 



Generic Characters. — Body elongated ; two dorsal fins, the first short, the 

 second long ; ventral fins with a single ray only at the base, afterwards di- 

 vided ; chin with one barbule. 



The Great Forked Beard was first discovered on 

 the Cornish coast by Mr. Jago, and inserted by Ray, with a 

 figure, in his Synopsis, as referred to. Pennanfs fish was 

 taken on the coast of Flintshire. A specimen appeared in 

 Carlisle market in December 1833, which was caught near 

 Bowness ; communicated to me by T. C. Heysham, Esq. : 

 and this fish has also occurred at St. Andrews in Scotland, 

 as noticed in the sixth volume of the Memoirs of the Wer- 

 nerian Natural History Society, page 569. It is obtained 

 occasionally in Cornwall. 



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