STRIPED ANGLER. 



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growing to the length of ten or twelve inches, 

 and in manners resembhng the European Angler. 

 Mons^ Renard, in his History of Fishes, affirms 

 that he knew an instance of an individual of this 

 species kept for three days out of water, and walk- 

 ing about the house in the manner of a dog ! ! ! 



STRIPED ANGLER. 



Lophius Striatus. L. compressus,fusco-/iavescenSj striis undique 



confertissimis nigris. Viv. Nat. 5. t, 175. 

 Compressed yellowish-brown Angler, marked on all parts 



with very numerous black streaks. 

 Striated Lophius. Nat Misc. 3, t. 175. 



Much allied to the Z. Histrio, but differing in 

 being marked all over, chiefly in a transverse direc- 

 tion, by very numerous and closely-placed, narrow, 

 black streaks, of unequal lengths, with fine black 

 lines interposed : the streaks round the eyes are 

 placed in a radiated direction : fins as in the 

 Histrio, and marked with black spots : mouth wide : 

 tongue broad, and paved above with flattened 

 teeth : from the top of the mouth a long filament, 

 slightly dilated into an oval shape at the tip : at 

 some distance beyond this two strong and thick 

 processes, as in the former species, but without fila- 

 ments at their tip : rays of the dorsal fin each ter- 

 minating in a fine cirrus. Native of the Southern 

 seas : observed about the coasts of Otaheitee during 

 the first voyage of Captain Cook. Length of the 

 specimen described about five inches. 



