Clas IV. LONG FISHING FROG. 95 
what Pliny calls cornicula, and fays it makes ufe of 
to attract the little fith. 
- Along the edges of the head and body are a mul- 
titude of fhort fringed fkins, placed at equal dif- 
tances. 
The ventral fins are broad, thick, and flefhy, are 
jointed like arms, and within fide divided into fingers. 
The aperture to the gills is placed behind, each of 
thefe is very wide, fo that fome writers have ima- 
gined it to bea receptacle for the young in time of 
danger. 
The back fin is placed very low near the begin- 
ning of the tail: the anal fin is placed beneath, al- 
moft oppofite the former. 
The body grows flender near the tail, the end of 
which is quite even. 
The color of the upper part of this fifh is dufky, 
the lower part white ; the fkin fmooth. 
it. The LONG FISHING. FROG. 
Fithing F ae of Mount’s-Bay. 27. fig. 6. Phil Tranf. vol. 
Borlafe Cornwall, 266. tab. lili. 170. 
HIS is a fpecies at prefent unknown to us, 
except by defcription. 
It is, fays Doctor Borlafe, of a longer form than 
the common kind: the head more bony, rough, and 
aculeated. It had no fin like appendages round the 
head, but on each fide the thinner part of the body, 
beginning beneath the dorfal fin, and reaching within 
two 
