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white : anal fin eighteen rays, white : caudal fin 

 rosy, and slightly forked when spread. 



Many of these are taken iq the summer months 

 on the coast of Devon, by the shore-nets ; their 

 size inferior to the other Gurnards, rarely exceed- 

 ing a foot in length, and seldom above nine or 

 ten inches. 



Trigla lineata. 



There appear to be two distinct species of 

 lineated Gurnards ; that originally described by 

 Mr J AGO as a Cornish fish, introduced by Mr 

 Pennant into the British Zoology, and one 

 figured by Mr Donovan in his British Fishes. 

 The former is one of the most common fishes on 

 the south coast of Devon, where it is frequently 

 called Red Gurnard, as well as Tubfish. It is 

 extremely variable in colour, from a bright-red 

 to a dark-brown, sometimes almost black upon the 

 back. I have examined several hundreds of this 

 species, which 1 consider as the same originally 

 discovered in Cornwall. 



The fish described by Mr Donovan for the 

 lineated Gurnard, has the remarkable character 

 of the lines crossing the whole fish, being ele- 

 vated and divaricating on the belly. In our fish, 



