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GOBIES. 
ROCK" GOBY. Gohiris Niger. Jenyns, p. 385. Yarre’Fs 
Br. F., vol. 1, p. 251. Miller’s Thumb — Black Goby ; but 
the latter name is inappropriate, since the colour is often 
light grey, or brown, according to the colour of the ground 
it occupies. I have taken a Shanny, two inches long, from 
the stomach of a Rock Goby of about six inches. 
TWO SPOTTED GOBY. G. Bipunctatus. Jenyns, p. 
386. Yarrell's Br. F., vol. 1, p. 255. 
SPOTTED GOBY. G. Minulus. Jenyns, p. 386. Yar- 
rell’s Br. F., vol 1, p. 258. The two last Species are com- 
monly confounded together ; but the last seems the most 
abundant. 
YELLOW SKULPIN. Callionymus Lyra. Jenyns, p. 
388. Yarrell’s Br. F., vol. 1, p. 261. Not uncommon. 
DUSKY SKULPIN. C. Dracunculus. Jenyns, p. 389. 
Yarrell’s Br. F., vol. 1, p. 266. Common. 
The Gobies and Skulpins are excellent bait for the more 
valuable Fishes, and form a portion of the attraction that 
draws them to our Coasts. 
ANGLER. Lophius Piscatorius. Jenyns, p. 389. Yarrell’s 
Br. F., vol. 1, p. 269. The monk of our Fishermen. Com- 
mon. 
Denied by nature the power of actively pursuing its prey, 
this curiously shaped fish is well fitted to discover and seize it, 
when it comes within its reach. The olfactory nerves, which 
terminate in two hollow tubes on its snout, are thin and feeble, 
so that tlie sonse of smell can profit it but littlo ; and the eyes 
a fc directed from rather than to, the presence of its prey ; 
but the fishing apparatus on the head is erected on a compli- 
cated muscular and bony structure, that is capable of guiding 
*t in all directions ; whilst the nerves with which it is furnished, 
derived from the origin of the spinal marrow, and passing for- 
ward over the top of the head, distributing branches to the fin 
like structure there, thus endowing them with ready sensibility, 
e uable it to discern the presence of any little unsuspecting crea- 
ture and to lead it forward to the gulf below. The roof of the 
•Uouthis rendered sensitive by a distribution of nerves that have 
Penetrated through the bone from the cavity of the skull, where 
they communicate with the brain (very small for the size of 
he Fish) by means of a large ganglion far in front oi it, but 
■within the same cavity. Branches of the fifth pair of nerves 
°f very large size, are supplied over the cheeks and jaws, but 
the largest of all to the lower jaw; where the teeth are fur- 
mshed with them in a manner to render their sensation exqui- 
site. Woe betides the unsuspecting creature that touches any 
P a rt of this well formed trap ; the presence of a stranger is 
