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This species is taken by the shore-nets, as well 

 as by hook, the finest when fishing for Whiting, 

 by a bait of launce. It is sometimes called Yel- 

 lock, at Torcross, by some of the fishermen, but 

 generally confounded with the Sapphirine, the 

 Red, and the Streaked Gurnards, under the deno- 

 mination of Tub. For the table, none of the 

 Gurnards are held in much estimation in this 

 part of the country, although the celebrated 

 epicure, Mr Quin, set some value upon a west 

 country Piper. The whole tribe requires good 

 sauce, being naturally dry ; but the Smooth Gur- 

 nard is not inferior to any. 



The air-bladder of this fish, is large and tri- 

 lobated ; whether this is the same in all the other 

 species, I am at present unable to determine, 



Trigla cuculus. 



There appears to be one striking character in 

 the Red Gurnard, which is not generally describ- 

 ed. In Shaw's Zoology it is retained ; and the 

 figure in the British Zoology represents it, al- 

 though it is not mentioned in the description. 

 This is a remarkable black spot at the top of the 

 first dorsal fin, which, as far as I have observed, 

 Jby ?;xamining many specimens, seems to be con- 



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