Class IV. STREAKED GUR?^ARD. 



ner of each are two fmall fpines. But what at once 

 diftinguifhes this from the other fpecies is the 

 breadth and colors of the pedoral fins, which are 

 very broad and long, of a pale green, moll beau- 

 tifully edged, and fpotted with rich deep blue. 



The dorfal fins are lodged between two rows of 

 fpines, of a ferrated form: the back is of a greenifh 

 call : the fide Hn^ is rough : the fides are tinged 

 with red ; the belly white. 



Thefe fifh are found on the coail of Cornwall 

 We have alfo taken them off Anglefea, 



Cuculus lineatas, the Streaked Gurnard. Raiifyn^ fife. 165. 141- Streak- 



THIS is one of the Cornijh fifh communicated 

 to Mr. Petiver by Mr. Jago. He fays the 

 head is large, and diftinguifhed with ilellated marks; 

 the eyes great \ the covering of the^ gills thorny ; 

 the mouth fmali, and v/ithout teeth. By the 

 figure the nofe feems not to be bifurcated. The 

 pedoral fins large, and fpotted, beneath them 

 three filaments : the color of the body red: the bel- 

 ly white, marked with many ftreaks, pointing 

 downwards, from the back. 



Mr. Jago imagines it to be the MuUis imher- 

 his oi Rondekiius, Wih Icth, 278. 



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