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A OOENISH FAUNA. 
Blochs Q-urnard. fT. Bloehii). Distinguished from Elleck by 
its blunt profile and dark colour. By no means uncommon. 
Lanthorn Gurnard. fT. LueernaJ. The Long-finned Captain. 
Eocorded as having occurred once at Plymouth. Very rare. 
Little Gurnard. {T. Pmoilopterd). A very small fish. Very 
rare. Has been taken at Falmouth and in the Bristol 
Channel. 
Armed Gurnard. {Peristedron malartnat). Mailed Gurnard. 
Very rare. 
Pogge. {Aspidophorus cataphraetus.) Armed Bullhead. Sea 
Poacher. Black sting fish. Mentioned by Couch as not 
uncommon. I have never seen a specimen. 
Miller s Thumb. ( Coitus GoUo). Eiver BuUhead. A fresh- 
water fish. Common. 
Fatherlasher. f Coitus Smrpius). Sea Scorpion. Sting fish 
(but it does not sting. It is so called from the complete 
spine armament of its head.) Pound inshore. Common. 
Lucky Proach. {Coitus Bulalis). Also called Fatherlasher. 
Common in deep water with rooky bottom. 
Thr°e-spined Stickleback. ( Gastorosteus Spinulosus). Banstickle 
Pricklefish._ Mr. Couch says of it “It is not uncommon" 
though not in abundance. It ascends our rivers in May ’’ 
My experience of it is that it is a very common fi.sh, and a 
permanent resident in our small brooks, where it is frequently 
mistaken for (and called) the minnow. 
Fifteen-spined Stickleback. {G. Spinachia). Sea Adder. Often 
confounded with the Pipe fishes. Common. 
The half-armed Stickleback and the Smoothtailed Stickleback 
are abandoned by Couch in his “ British Pishes.” 
Couch here introduces the Maigre fScimna AquilaJ, which is 
not a stickleback, but the typical fish of the Sciceuidai, an allied 
lamily. It is a Mediterranean fish, and has occurred in Corn- 
wall on several occasions in sizes varying from one foot to over 
five feet in length. The largest specimen recorded was literally 
drowned off the Land’s End. A large stem of oreweed had got 
entangled in its gills, and the fish being thus prevented from 
breathing, died from suffocation. 
