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hood of the Village of St. Neot, was at the time referred 
by me to this Species as described by Dr. Fleming ; but I 
have not been able to prosecute the enquiry. 
FISHES. 
Cabrilla. Jenyns, p. 
Comber. Common, 
and used for bait. It 
THE PERCH KIND. 
PERCH. Pei •ca Fluviatilis. Jenyns, p. 330. Yarrell’s Br. 
Fishes, vol. 1, p. 1. Not a Native of Cornwall ; but it has 
been introduced, particularly by R. Lakes, Esq. of St. 
Austle, and thrives well. It is easily transferred from 
one pond to another, and would well repay the labour. 
fi ASS. P. Labrax. Jenyns, p. 331, Yarrell’s Br. F., vol, 
1, p. 6. The Lupus of the Roman Poets. Common, in 
harbours and sandy bays. 
smooth serranus. Sen ■anus 
332. Yarrell’s Br. F., vol. 1, p. 8. 
near rocks, at a few miles from land, 
spawns in Summer. 
DUSKY SERRANUS. S. Gigas. Jenyns, p. 333. Yar- 
rell’s Br. F., vol. 1, p. 15. Loudon’s Mag. Nat. Hist. vol. 
5, p. 21. Only one Specimen is yet recorded as British. 
STONE BASS. S. Couckii. Yarrell’s Br. F., vol. 1, p. 
12. Polyprion Gentium, Cuvier and Valenciennes,’ Hist, 
des Poissons, vol. 2. The description of this fish was 
omitted in Mr. Yarrell’s work, as above quoted, through 
accident; and its publication here is unnessary, since little 
doubt is felt either by that Gentleman or myself, that it is 
the Polyprion Cernium of Cuvier. The doubt here inti- 
mated arises from the great bulk assigned to the Species by 
the French Naturalist, and because of some difference ia 
the colours. We know however, that a variation in water 
and light will greatly influence the tints of colonr, and there- 
fore the only real difficulty arises from the enormous size of 
an hundred pounds, ascribed to it by Cuvier, while a weight 
ot twenty is regarded as extraord inary in the Cornish Fish. 
>J QUlRi{,EL FISH. Hmmulon Formosum. Cuv. Poiss. vol. 
5, p. 230, — who refers to Perea Formosa, Lin. Bnraco da 
V elha. Ray’s Syn. Pise. p. 134. One Specimen has been 
Inken at Looe. It is a native of the West Indies. 
WIEVER. Trachinas Draco. Jenyns, p. 335, Yarreli’s 
Dr- F vol. 1 ; p. 20. Sting Bull. Not uncommon towards 
me end of Summer. 
