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in Banffshire, where the largest are obtained towards the end of autumn. In the 

 spring of 1840 one of the young was taken from the stomach of a great northern 

 diver. Thompson likewise remarks that he has seen this species in autumn 

 captured in salmon nets at Ballantrae, in Ayrshire, and on different parts of the 

 coast in the country. 



In Ireland, Thompson observes that this fish is found round the coast ; and at 

 Toughal it is termed tubs. Moore mentions it in Kerry. It is brought to the 

 Belfast market chiefly during the spring and autumn, but said to be in the best 

 condition in May. 



It attains, according to Thompson, to at least 141b. weight, and 2 feet or more 

 in length. 



4. Trigla gurnardus, Plate XXV. 



Coccyx alter, Belon. i, p. 207 ; Jonston, De Pise. lib. i, t. iii, c. 1, art. 2, p. 65, 

 t. xvii, f. 11. Gomatuss. gurnardus griseus, Willughby, iv, c. 7, p. 279, t. S. 2, f . 1 ; 

 Ray, p. 88. Trigla, sp. 8 ; Artedi, Genera, p. 46 ; Gronov. Mus. Ich. p. 44, and 

 Zooph. p. 84, no. 283. Milvus, Rondel, x, c. 8, p. 297, c. fig ; Aldrov. ii, c. 58, 

 p. 279. Gorystion, Klein, Mss. iv, pi. xiv, f . 2. Gurnardus griseus seu Guculus 

 griseus, Rutty, N. Hist. Co. Dublin, 1772, i, p. 367. Gray gurnard, Pennant, 

 (Ed. 1) iii, p. 276, pi. liv, (Ed. 2) iii, 371, pi. lxv; Low, Faun. Oread, p. 229. 



Trigla gurnardus, Linn. Syst. Nat. i, p. 497 ; Bonaterre, Ency. Ich. p. 145, 

 pi. lx, f . 236 ; Gmel. Linn, i, p. 1342 ; Bloch, t. lviii ; Bl. Schn. p. 14 ; Donovan, 

 ii, pi. xxx ; Lacep. Poiss. iii, p. 358 ; Shaw, Zool. iv, pt. 2, p. 619, pi. xc ; Turton, 

 p. 102 ; Risso, Ich. Nice, p. 207 ; Faber, Fische Islands, p. 124 ; Cuv. and Yal. iv, 

 p. 62 ; Bonap. Fauna Ital. Pesci, iii, p. 102, c. fig. ; Flem. Brit. An. p. 215 ; 

 Yarrell, Brit. Fishes (Ed. 1) i, p. 48, c. fig. (Ed. 2) i, p. 53, (Ed. 3) ii, p. 28 ; 

 Templeton, Mag. K Hist. (2) i, 1837, p. 409; Jenyns, Brit. Vert. p. 342; 

 Swainson, Fishes, ii, p. 262 ; Johnston, Berwick. Nat. Field Club, 1838, 

 i, p. 170 ; Parnell, Fishes Frith of Forth, p. 18, pi. xxii ; White, Catal. p. 4 ; 

 Thompson, Nat. Hist. Ireland, iv, p. 74 ; Gunther, Catal. ii, p. 205 ; Schlegel, 

 De Dieren van Ned. p. 45, pi. iv, f. 1 ; Malm, CEfv. Sv. Akad. 1870, p. 829 ; 

 Collett, Norges Fiske, p. 37 ; Mcintosh, Fish. St. Andrew's, p. 172. 



Trigla cuculus, Bloch, Ich. p. 516, t. lix ; Gmel. Linn. p. 1343 ; Bl. Schn. p. 14 ; 

 Bonaterre, Ency. p. 146, pi. lx, f . 237 ; Turton, p. 102 ; Risso, Ich. Nice, p. 208 ; 

 Mont. Wern. Mem. ii, p. 457 ; Flem. Brit. An. p. 215 ; Cuv. and Yal. iv, p. 67 ; 

 Jenyns, Brit. Yert. p. 343 ; Gunther, Catal. ii, p. 207 ; Thomp. Pro. Zoo. Soc. 

 1837, p. 57 and Nat. Hist. Ireland, iv, p. 74. 



Trigla milvus, Lacep. Poiss. iii, p. 340, 362 ; Risso, Hist. Nat. iii, p. 395 ; Cuv. 

 and Yal. iv, p. 67 ; Bonap. Faun. Ital. Peso, iii, p. 52, c. fig. 



Trigla Blochii, Yarrell, Brit. Fish. (Ed. 1) i, p. 50, c. fig. (Ed. 2) i, p. 56, 

 (Ed. 3) ii, p. 32 ; Parnell, Fish. Frith of Forth, p. 21, t. xxiii ; White, Catal. p. 4 ; 

 Swainson, ii, p. 262. 



Trigla gurnardi, var. Parn. Wern. Mem. vii, p. 182. 



Trigla aspera, Gronov. ed. Gray. p. 105. 



Gurnard, Couch, Fish. Brit. Isles, ii, p. 27, pi. lxviii. 



Block's gurnard, Couch, 1. c. ii, p. 29, pi. lxix. 



B. vii, D. 8-9/19, P. 10, Y. 1/5, A. 18-19, C. 15, L. 1. 73-76, Ccec. pyl. 7-9, 

 Yert. 14/24. 



Length of head 3| to 3f , of caudal fin 6 to 6|-, height of body 6 in the total 

 length. Byes — high up, situated nearer to the posterior than to the anterior end 

 of the head, in adults being about If diameter from the posterior end of the 

 head and two from the end of the snout. Interorbital space slightly concave and 

 a little less in extent than the diameter of the eye. Snout elongated, with its 

 upper profile nearly straight, being most obtuse in the young. Head with 

 stellated ridges the lines forming which are mostly tubercular and not very 

 prominent : upper surface of head tuberculated. The anterior extremity of the 

 preorbital denticulated, spinate in the young : two or three small supraorbital 



