36 A CORNISH FAUNA. 



Blocli's Gurnard. (T. Blochii). Distinguished from Elleck by 

 its blunt profile and dark colour. By no means uncommon. 



Lantliorn Gurnard. (T. Lucerna). The Long-finned Captain. 

 Eecorded as having occurred once at Plymouth. Yery rare. 



Little Gurnard. {T. Pmciloptera). A very small fish. Yery 

 rare, Has been taken at Falmouth and in the Bristol 

 Channel. 



Armed Gurnard. [Peristedron malarmat). Mailed Gurnard. 

 Yery rare. 



Pogge. (Aspidophorus cat aphr actus.) Armed Bullhead. Sea 

 Poacher. Black sting fish. Mentioned by Couch as not 

 uncommon. I have never seen a specimen. 



Miller's Thumb. (Cottus Gobio). Eiver Bullhead. A fresh- 

 water fish. Common. 



Fatherlasher. ( Cottus ScorpiusJ. Sea Scorpion. Sting fish 

 (but it does not sting. It is so called from the complete 

 spine armament of its head.) Found inshore. Common. 



Lucky Proach. (Cottus Bubalis). Also called Fatherlasher. 

 Common in deep water with rocky bottom. 



Three-spined Stickleback. (Gasterosteus Spinulosus). Banstickle. 

 Pricklefish. Mr. Couch says of it "It is not uncommon, 

 though not in abundance. It ascends our rivers in May." 

 My experience of it is that it is a very common fish, and a 

 permanent resident in our small brooks, where it is frequently 

 mistaken for (and called) the minnow. 



Fifteen-spined Stickleback. (67. Spinachia). Sea Adder. Often 

 confounded with the Pipe fishes. Common. 



The half-armed Stickleback and the Smoothtailed Stickleback 

 are abandoned by Couch in his " British Fishes." 



Couch here introduces the Maigre ( Scice?ia Aquilaj, which is 

 not a stickleback, but the typical fish of the ScisenidEe, an allied 

 family. It is a Mediterranean fish, and has occurred in Corn- 

 wall on several occasions in sizes varying from one foot to over 

 five feet in length. The largest specimen recorded was literally 

 drowned off the Land's End. A large stem of oreweed had got 

 entangled in its gills, and the fish being thus prevented from 

 breathing, died from suffocation. 



