276 GREY GURNARD. Class IV. 



XXXT. Nok aoping 

 GURNARD ^ ^ 



Head covered with (Irong bony plates. 



Seven branchioftegous rays. 



Three (lender appendages at the bafe of the perioral 



fins. 



137^i Grey. Gurnatus feu Gurnardus gri- que oculum. Arted» fynoTi, 



feus, the Grey Gurnard. 74, 



Wil. Icth. 279. Rail fyn. Trigia Gurnardus, Tr. digitis 



fife. 88. ternis dorfo maculis nigris 



Trigia vario roilro diacantho, rubrifque. Lin. fyft. 497. 



aculeis -geminis ad utrum- Gronou. Zoopb. No. 283, 



Op HE nole pretty long, and Hoping: the end 

 -** bifurcated, and each fide armed with three 

 fiiort fpines. 



The eyes very large -, above each were two fhort 

 fpines : the forehead and covers of the gills fil- 

 very •, the laft finely radiated. 



The teeth fmall, placed in the lower and upper 



jaws, in the roof of the mouth, and bafe of the 

 tongue. 



Nodrils minute, and placed on the- fidts of the 

 nole. 



On the extremity of the gill covers was a ftrong, 

 fliarp, and long fpine : beneath that, juft above the 

 pedoral fins, another. 



The 



