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Instead of being simply scarlet, I have seen it with the 
dorsal fin remarkably wide, the margin purple, the base 
yellow, and the middle red, the Specimen about 18 inches 
long. The C. Taenia probably does not differ from this 
Species. It is not uncommon. 
GRE Y MULLET. Mugil Capilo. Jcnyns, p. 374. Yar- 
rell’s I5r. F., vol. 1. p. 200. Common. 
THICK LIPPED MULLET. M. G'lielo. Yarrell’s Br. F., 
vol. 1, p. 207. Common, sometimes in great numbers. The 
pea of both these kinds of Mullets is shed in harbours, and 
the mouths of rivers; and the young, which associate in 
Shoals, are commonly at the margin of the tide, and often 
in freshwater. 
AT1IERINE. Atherina Presbyter. Jenyns, p. 377. Yar- 
roll’s Br. F., vol. 1 , p. 377. Smelt : — a word fancifully in- 
terpreted by Pennant, to signify a peculiar odour ; but de- 
rived from the transparent appearance of two or three Spe- 
cies bearing it, and signifying to melt ; in which sense it is 
still employed in the liquefaction of metals from their ore. 
No less than three kinds of British Fishes have been called 
Smelt: — the immature. Salmon, another Species of the same 
Genus (S. Eperlanus) and the Atherine; and the propriety 
of carefully distinguishing between these and other Fishes, 
that may chance to bear corresponding designations in dif- 
ferent parts of the Kingdom, will appear from the fact, that 
it was a recommendation of a Committee of the House of 
Commons on the Salmon Fisheries, to inflict a penalty on 
the possession of a Whiting at the prohibited season ; for- 
getting that the latter name is far more commonly applied 
to a Fish of the Cod than Salmon kind. 
BLENNIES. 
GATTORUGINE. Blennins Gattorugine. Jenyns, p. 379. 
Yarrell’s Br. F., vol. 1, p. 227. Tompot. Common. 
MONTAGU’S BLENNY. B. Montagui. Jenyns, p. 381. 
Yarrell’s Br. F., vol. 1, p. 219. Not uncommon. 
SHAHNY. B. Pholis. Jenyns, p. 382. Yarrell’s Br. F., 
vol. 1, p. 230. Common. 
SPOTTED GUNNEL. B. Gunnellus. Jenyns, p. 383 . 
Yarrell’s Br. F., vol. 1, p. 239. Buttcrfish. Nine Eyes. 
,1 have no doubt that the word Gunnel, first applied to 
this Fish by Ray, and supposed by him to be its Cornish 
name, is a corruption of the word Gunwhale, from the 
part of the boat which the form of the Fish was supposed 
to resemble ; but I question whether it was any thing more 
than a momentary invention of his informant, who probably 
knew no name for the Species. 
