Color. 
164 SPOTTED WHISTLE FISH. Clafs IV 
The head is very ugly, being flat, and fhaped 
like that of a toad: the teeth are very fmall, but 
numerous: the irides yellow. 
On the end of the nofe are two {mall bcaware on 
the chin another: the number of its branchioftegous 
rays are feven. 
The firft dorfal fin is fhort: the fecond is placed 
immediately behind it, and extends almoft to the 
tail: the pectoral fins are rounded : the ventral fins 
confit of fix rays, of which the two firft are di- 
vided near their ends from each other: the vent is 
placed in the middle of the belly, and the anal fin 
reaches almoft to the tail: the tail is rounded at 
the end. 
The color of this fpecies varies ; fome are dufky, 
others of a dirty green, {potted with black, and 
oftentimes with yellow, and the belly in fome is 
white ; but the real colors are frequently concealed 
by the flime. 
XY. The SPOTTED WHISTLE RSE 
Muftella vulgaris. Rondel. 281 Rati fin. pife. 67. Rock- 
Gefner fife. 89. ling, Mr. Jago. Razi /yn. 
Sea Loche Ceftrie, Whittle Fifth fife. 164. fige Qe 
Cornubia. Wil. Icth. 12%. 
HIS fpecies commonly frequents the rocky 
fhores of thefe iflands, and is fometimes taken 
with a bait. | 
It grows to the length of one foot: the head is 
large and flat: the eyes mot remote from the end 
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