PAVONIAN SUCKEK. SQl 



as a variety : first described by Gesner, and from 

 him by Willughby : said to be found in the Baltic 

 sea and the Northern ocean, and, Uke the former 

 kind, is occasionally seen about the coasts of Scot- 

 land. In the Leverian Museum is a very fine 

 specimen of this fish. 



Far. 



PAVONIAN SUCKER. 



Cyclopterus Pavoninus. C. argenteO'thalassimts, lateribus sub^ 



roseiSf dorso mruleo. 

 Silvery-green Sucker, with the sides subrosaceous, and the 



back blue. 



Cyclopterus pavoninus. Nat. Misc, Q. t. 310. 



An accurate description of this highly beautiful 

 variety was transmitted to me some years ago by 

 the Revd. Mr. Hugh Davies, of Aber near Bangor, 

 in North- Wales, and was introduced into the ninth 

 volume of the Naturalist's Miscellany. Mr. Davies 

 observes that it seems to have escaped the notice 

 of every Enghsh Ichthyologist, but is described by 

 Klein in his Historia Piscium under the title of 

 Oncotion dilute viridis et vivide color ibiis pamneis 

 resplendens^ dorso parum nigricante, pinnis viridibus, 

 ad ambit um deauratis. In all particulars, except 

 in size and colours, it agrees with the common 

 Lump-Fish : the back is of a fine azure, deepening 

 towards the ridge : the sides are tinged with crim- 

 son : the mouth, side^ of the head, and all tl^e 



