Saurgs. 
boy SHA -PIK & Clafs IY. 
if cre -S EO AME alee 
Berovn. Arif. Hiff. an. tie ce. Horn-fifh, or Gar-fifh. WI. 
15. &C. Leth. 231. Raii fyn. pife. 109« 
zk 3 _.. pp Efox roftro cufpidato gracili - 
Bvt, Pages ¢ Arbenest lib, ae aes Gite eee 
A eae ap lone Piaiz Hb. ix ted. fynon. 27. 
Ce ee On ee coc). Blox Betomen ba ater utraque 
maxilla dentata. Lina. /jf. 
Gomis 
Acuchia. Salvian. 68. Crono. Zaes ates 
LAguille, ou Orphie. Belor. Ei 
161. atone 5 
HVA) Syste is Nabbejadda, Horngiall, Fauz. 
Acus prima fpecies. Rondel. Ja Weis. § men 
227. Gefuer pife. 9. ae pa 
Horn-fifck. Schomewelde. 11s Le nadel. Wulf 
‘HIS fifh which is known in many places, is 
known by the name of the Sea Needle. Ie 
comes in fhoals on our coafts in the beginning of 
fummer, and precedes the mackrel: it has a refem- 
blance to it in tafte, but the light creen, which ftains 
the back bone of this fifh when boiled, gives many 
people a difeuft to it. 
Mr. Ray tells us, that when he was in Cornwall, 
the fifhermen gave him the names of two fpecies of 
this fifh, one they called Girrocks, the other Skippers ; 
thefe we may fuppofe to be the common kind, the 
other (according to Mr. Fago’s conjecture) 1s pro- 
bably the fame with the Saurus of Rondeletius, p. 
232, which both thofe icthyologifts agree has a fhor- 
ter nofe than the common fpecies. We have no other 
defcription of this fifh than what is left us by Roz- 
aeletius, who fays, that it is fhorter and thicker than 
the other; that the nofe is fhorter and turns up; that 
