158 



measuring seven and a quarter inches, was three quarters of 

 an inch high: branched like a stag's horn behind and on the 

 top. Separate threads on the neck : the first ray of the 

 dorsal fin with a branching tuft, the second with a couple of 

 shorter fibres. 



In another specimen the tufts on the head were more 

 divaricated ; but in all cases the tendrils pointed backward. 

 In most of the specimens the colour was a light brown, with 

 a distinct brown line from the base of the anterior supra- 

 ocular process, curving round the anterior margin of the eye, 

 and thence descending below the angle of the mouth. At 

 the upper margin of the gills the outlet is formed by a 

 gathering of the skin into a tube. 



Fin rays, D. 50,51. P. 14, 14. A. 35,39. C. 16, 16. 

 V. 3, 2. 



The ventral fins were soft; in one specimen, with three 

 soft rays ; in the other, with two palmate rays. 



WOLF FISH, Anarrhichas Ivpus, Linnaeus. Fleming's 

 Brit. An., p. 208. Jenyns' Man., p. 384. Yarrell's Br. 

 F., vol. 1, p. 277, N. E. 



This is a fish of the north sea, nnd not much disposed to 

 wander from its usual haunts. When therefore I was in- 

 formed that a specimen had been taken at Fowey, I felt 

 inclined to doubt its certainty. But I have since been 

 informed by Mr. J. C. Bellamy, the author of the Natural 

 History of South Devon, that he possesed a specimen taken 

 in the neighbourhood of Pl\ mouth ; and as the usual fishing 

 ground of that port, is oil' the Cornish land, it renders 

 the report from Fowey more probable, and is in itself some 

 ground for placing this species in our catalogue. 



POLE WIG. 

 FRICKLE GOBY. Gobius minutus. Yarrell's Br. F., 



vol. 1, p. 288, 2nd edition. 



I take this to be the species of Goby, which I have never 

 met with on our rocky coast, though it may be not uncom- 

 mon at the mouths of our more considerable rivers. My 

 acquaintance with it is confined to the Looe ; up which river 

 it advances with the tide, and again retreats with it. They 

 are less than two inches in length, and of the general form 

 of the Gobies; but the) are remarkable in having the eyes 

 on the summit of the head ; under jaw rather prominent. 

 They are without spots, or those regularly tesselaled mark- 

 ings so prettily seen in the double spotted Goby ; but not 

 represented in Mr. Yarrell's figure of the latter fish: a cir- 

 cumstance as regards the last named fish, that may be ex- 

 plained by our specimens frequenting a rocky shore, which 



