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A COENISH FAUNA. 
QOBIOIBM.—(^^ Blennies). 
The Gattorugine. {Bhnnim Gattomgine). The Tompot. Common. 
The Butterfly Blenny. {Blennius ocellaris). Not uncommon near 
Falmouth, but elsewhere it is rare. 
The Shanny. {B.pJiolis). The Bully or BuUcod, dear to the 
youth of our sea-coasts. The smooth Blenny. Common 
everywhere. Voluntarily spends a largo portion of its time 
out of water in the crevices of the rocks, and can, by the 
aid of two false pectorals and its tail direct its motions when 
on shore. 
Montague’s Blenny. {B. Montagui). Not imcommon. 
Yarrell’s Blenny. {BUnniogn Ascarii). Not uncommon in Corn- 
wall, but rare in West Cornwall. 
Butterfish. {Gunnellm vulga/ris). Nine eyes. Spotted gunnel. 
Common. Traditionally said to have derived its name of 
Gunnel from the ignorance in common of the natm’ahst who 
first observed it, and of a fisherman to whom he showed it. 
The fisherman said “it looked very much like a gunnel” 
(meaning the gunwale of a small boat), and the naturalist 
assumed that the fisherman knew the fish, and had called it 
by its proper name. Couch (see “ Fauna ”) aUudes to this. 
The Wolf-fish. {AnarchicJias lupus). The Catfish. Very rare. 
The Eoek Goby. { Gdbius niger). The black goby, also called 
Miller’s thumb. Common. 
The Paganellus. {G. Paganellus). A Mediterranean species. 
Bare in this country, but recorded as having occurred in 
Cornwall. 
The two-spotted Goby. {G. Upunctatus). Is recorded as having 
occurred in Cornwall, but it is not common. 
The Broadfinned Goby ( G. hiocellatus) and the Tail spotted Goby 
{G. attenuatus) are distinguished from G. Upunctatus, and 
from each other, by Couch, but it seems to me that they are 
thus distinguished on insufficient grounds. In very little 
fish like those the accidental variations are out of all pro- 
portion numerous to those of large fish. Take for instance 
the white goby, admitted by Yarrell as G. alhus, and by 
Gunther as Latrunculus alius. Couch sweeps it away at once 
