GURNARD. V 54^ 



Sc. Pelaniis, Z»«. 49z.--Eonito, Law/on, 155. s^j, Bot-ixe. 



T^ HIS is another fpecies of 'funny, which frequents the inlets of 

 Carolina, and the ocean adjacent to them. It grows to the length 

 of three feet, and is taken by the harpoon and fifh-gig. They are 

 feen in vaft nun:ibers in all the tropical countries, and enliven, by the 

 chace they give to other fifhes, the tedioufnefs of a long voyage. They 

 live chiefly on \h.c/apia, and flying-filhes» 



Br. Zool. 'in. p. 276.. Genus XXXI* XXXI gdr 



NARD. 

 Trygia evolans, Lin. 498. ,,^5, ^^^^.^^^ 



f^ With a fquare and broad nofe : two (len-der fpines above each 

 eye, two at the top of the head, and two beyond the gills : ten, 

 fpiny rays in the firft dorfal fin, which is marked with a great black 

 fpot : the fcales on the lateral line are fmall, black, and very rough : 

 the fpace above that line brown, fpotted with black : belly white : 

 peroral fin black, very broad, and fo long as to extend two thirds- 

 the length of the body. 



Inhabits the fea off New Tork, Carolina, and Jamaica. — Defcribed Placs. 



from a fpecimen in Mrs. Blackburne's Mujeum. The fame with the 

 Rough Gurnard in Do6tor Forster's- Catalogue. 



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