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AN ANNOTATED LIST OF CORNISH FISHES. 

 By James Clakk, M.A., D.Sc, A.R.C.S. 



(Continued from p. 427.) 



Couch recorded the Cat-fish or Wolf-fish {Anarrhichas lupus, 

 L.) from Fowey and Looe. One over three feet long was found 

 on the beach at Whitsand Bay, Land's End, in an advanced 

 state of decomposition in December, 1906, after a spell of very 

 stormy weather. The Gattorugine (Blennius gattorugine, Bloch) 

 is common on rocky ground along the south coast from fifteen 

 fathoms downwards, and has been obtained at St. Ives and 

 Millook on the north. Single specimens have been obtained 

 eight miles south of the Dodman in forty fathoms, and in July, 

 1907, several were captured at Coverack. It is usually taken in 

 Crab-pots with fine net over the bottom. Montagu's Blenny 

 (B. galerita, L.) is at times frequently captured in the rock-pools 

 at Gorran, Gyllyngvase, and Mount's Bay, and has been taken 

 at Polperro, Mevagissey, Cadgwith, and St. Ives, but its numbers 

 vary greatly, and in some years, as in 1901 and 1907, hardly a 

 specimen was found. The Butterfly Blenny (B. ocellaris, L.) 

 has since 1899 — at least up to 1906 — been quite common in the 

 pools among the weed-covered rocks at Gyllyngvase, and as 

 many as eleven have been captured in a single afternoon. This 

 year, however, only two specimens have been found in nine 

 visits. Three examples were dredged in fifteen fathoms off the 

 mouth of the Helford River in June, 1904, and one was found 

 dead on Marazion beach in February, 1900. The Shanny 

 (B. pholis, L.) is common, and in places abundant, along the 

 south in rock-pools and among stones. Round Land's End and 

 along the north coast it is very local. Occasionally numbers 

 may be seen resting on rocks and in crevices above the surface 

 of the pool, into which they jump when disturbed with a patter 

 like big rain-drops. The Crested Blenny {Carelophus ascanii, 

 Walb.) is said to be not uncommon in the south of Cornwall, but 



