j^j BULL-HEAD., 



green •. peftoral fins varied with black, green, and purple : the dorfal 

 of a cinnamon color : anal green, ftriped in the middle with red : ven- 

 tral red, edged with blue : near the fetting on of the tail is a rich 

 yellow fpot : tail lunated, green, with an incurvated tranfverfe ftripe 

 of red. 



Few fifh equal this in rldhnefs of its color : it is alfo efteemed 

 very delicate eating. 

 Pj^ace. Is frequent among the Bahama iQes, and the AntitleSy and alfo ofF 



Carolina. 



Thefe fifli vary in color : that which Dodor Garden communicated 

 to LiNN^us had not lefs brilliancy. 



99 



LiNEATEB. I See this in Doflor Forster's Catalogue, but can give no farther 

 account of it. 



XXII. BULL- Br. ZooL iii. p. 216. Genus XXII. 



HEAD. 



100. Father. Br. ZooL iii. N° 99.— -Cottus fcorpius, Lin. 452. — Bloch. ii. 17. 



LASHER. 



P R E QU E N T oiF Newfoundland. 



joi. Acadian. T> With head, and covers of the gill, very fpiny and rugged I 

 dorfal fin confifts of four fpiny rays, the firft very long, the 

 reft gradually fhortening ; the fpines of the fecond and third longeft in 

 the middle, gradually fhortening before and behind : tail rounded : 

 color dirty yellow, blotched with purple. Length about five inchese 

 Eafily diftinguifhed by its three dorfal fins. 

 Place. Tdken oS Nova Scotia. A drawing of it communicated to me by 



CoL D^wV of the artillery. 



II Liiti 



