Class IV. ARMED BULL-HEAD. 



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The eyes are very fmall : the irides yellow : the 

 teeth very minute, placed in the jaws and the roof 

 of the mouth. 



The body grows flender towards the tail, and is 

 very fmooth. 



The firlt dorfal fin confifts of fix rays, the fecond 

 of feventeen : the perioral fins are round, and 

 prettily fcalloped at their edges, and are compofed 

 of thirteen rays ; the ventral of only four ; the 

 anal of thirteen ; the tail of twelve, and is rounded 

 at the end. 



The color of this fifh is as difagreeable as its 

 form, being dufky, mixed with a dirty yellow : 

 the belly whitilli. 



Gataphra&uSj Stein-bicker, 

 Miiller, Turfs-bull. Schone- 

 ^jeUe, 30. Tab. 3. 



Cataphraftus Schone'veldii Sep- 

 tentr. Anglis a Pogge. WiL 

 Icfh. 211. Rait fyn.pifc. 77. 



Cottus cirris plurimis corpore 

 oftagono. Arted. fynon. jj. 



Cottus Cataphraclus. C. lori- 

 catus, roitro verrucofo 2 

 bifidis, capite fubtus cir- 

 rofo. Lin.fyft, 451. 



Botn-mus. Faun, Suec. No. 

 324- 



Seb, Muf. III. Tab. 28. Gro-, 

 no=v. Zooph, No. 271. 



!, Armed. 



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HE pogge is very common on mod of the 

 Brltijlo coafts. 

 It feldom exceeds five inches and an half in 

 length, and even feldom arrives at that fize. 



The head is large, bony, and very rugged : the 

 end of the nofe is armed with four ftiorc upright 



fpines : 



