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and taken in the bay, was brought to me. On the 20th of this same month two 
more were, like that of the 8th, captured in the mullet-nets at Garmoyle, a 
deep part of the bay, about three miles from town. One of these, in size and 
of a blackish colour like those hitherto noticed, proved to be a female ; but the 
other, a much smaller specimen, was of a beautiful deep rose colour on the lower 
half of the body, this hue prevailing to a greater extent than the orange repre- 
sented in Donovan’s figure of the species ; this was a male fish. 
“Cuvier remarks, £ Le Cycl. gibbosus , Will., vol. x. f. 2, ne parait qu’un Lump 
male empaille ’ (Reg. An. tom. ii. 346, 2 ed.), the correctness of which seems to 
admit not of doubt. It may be added, that Willughby copied his figure from 
Gesner (lib. 4, paralipomena, p. 29). The hump appears tome to have been a 
manufacture of the preserver’s, probably to add to the effect of the uncouth 
aspect which the fish at best presents, a conjecture which I venture to make on 
account of the stretched appearance which the skin presents throughout this 
dorsal pyramid (hence the appellation of pyramidatus bestowed on it in Shaw’s 
General Zoology, vol. v. part 2, p. 360, pi. 167) in the figure of Gesner, and 
which is repeated in the works of Willughby and Shaw. Opposed to this view, 
however (which might suffice were one specimen only recorded), is the circum- 
stance, that the C. gibbosus is stated to have occurred in the Baltic Sea, Northern 
Ocean, and (according to Sibbald) on the coast of Scotland.” — Ann. Nat. Hist. 
vol. iii. 
April 1th, 1840. A female lump fish was found adhering to a stone 
under the wheel of the bridge at “ the paper mill,” Belfast, the ex- 
treme point to which the tide flows at high water. The fish was dead 
when discovered, and full of roe. 
March 8th, 1841. The largest Cyclop, lumpus I have seen was sent 
from Portaferry to-day, for the Belfast Museum. It is 23| inches long, 
is a female, with ova protruding, and has no red markings but the usual 
begrimed appearance of this sex. 
June 22nd, 1844. Mr. Hyndman to-day took a number of the young 
of this species, from f inch to 1 inch long, but none exceeding an inch in 
length, but floating on the surface in the Kyles of Bute : a fortnight 
afterwards he saw them similarly floating on the surface of the sea, at the 
Skerries on the Dublin coast : they rested by attaching themselves to 
floating sea- weeds. 
Cyclopterus lumpus, young. Aug. 25th, 1846. Mr. It. Patterson brought 
me this morning three specimens alive, from Cultra, taken on the 22nd, 
about an inch in length : two of them are to the naked eye of a uniform 
bright green colour (but differing in shade), without spots; the third is of 
a pale green covered over with large rust-coloured spots, like the C. ini- 
nutus, Zool. Don. pi. 154. Their fins are all of a beautiful hyaline trans- 
parency, and when the fish moves quickly are consequently invisible : a 
bluish line tinged with gold extends from each eye to the mouth and as 
far behind the eye in a straight line; pupil blackish, irides reddish 
golden. 
These specimens confirm the view which I took in a paper, published 
in the Annals, vol. iii. p. 38. In place of the dorsal lump in the adult 
fish, they have a fleshy membrane of the same colour as the body, which 
serves as a fin in all their motions ; three or four points like those of rays 
project a little from its margin, are brownish, under parts of the fish are 
greenish-white, pectoral fins orange tipped with dusky. 
Mr. Yarrell says : * 
“ Some of our fishermen consider that we have on our coast two species 
of lump fish, which they distinguish by the names of Red Lump and Blue 
Br. Fishes, vol. ii. p. 366. 
