SAPPHIRINE GURNARD. 



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black spot ; the second tinged near its edge with 

 yellow : native of the European seas, and esteemed 

 as a food. 



ASIATIC GURNARD. 



Trigla Asiatica. T. argentea, digitis quaternis* 

 Silvery Gurnard, with quadruple fingers. 

 Trigla Asiatica. Lin. Gmel. 



Body smooth; of a silvery colour: snout smooth 

 and prominent : anterior gill-covers serrated: pecto- 

 ral fins falcated. Native of the Indian seas. 



SAPPHIRINE GURNARD. 



Trigla Hirundo. T. griseo-fusca, subtus argentea, digitis terms, 

 pinnis pectoralibus maximis olivaceis ccertileo-maculatis. 



Grey-brown Gurnard, silvery beneath, with triple fingers, and 

 very large olivaceous pectoral fins spotted with blue. 



Trigla Hirundo. Lin. Sapphirine Gurnard. Brit. Zool. Tub- 

 Fish. Will. 



Size equal to that of the grey Gurnard : scales 

 middle-sized : lateral line rough : pectoral fins very 

 large, of a violaceous olive, sometimes, according to 

 Mr. Pennant, richly edged and spotted with blue : 

 native of the European seas, occasionally springing 

 out of the water to some distance by means of its 

 large pectoral fins. 



