Class IV. COO K. 253 



a fmooth, even flripe from gills to tail, of a filvery 

 color. 



Cook {i.e. Coquus) CornuhienJln7n, Raii fyn. ptfc ., 163. 123. CoO£. 



.^T^HIS fpecies, Mr. Jago fays, is fometimes 

 ^ taken in great plenty on the Cornijh coafts. 

 It is a fcaly fifh, and does not grow to any great 

 fize. The back is purple and dark blue; the 

 belly yellow. By the figure it feems of the fame 

 fhape as the Comber, and the tail rounded. 



Befides thefe fpecies we recoiled feeing taken 

 at the Giant's Caufeway in Ireland^ a moft beautiful 

 kind of a vivid green, fpotted with fcarlet ; and 

 others at Bandooran^ in the county oi Sligo^ of a 

 pale green. We were at that time inattentive to 

 this branch of natural hiftory, and can only fay 

 they were of a fpecies we have never fince feen. 



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