plate XXXIV, 
TTie Viviparous Blenny is a most prolific creature, producing ac- 
cording to some naturalists from two to three or four hundred young 
at a tune. It grows to the length of twelve or fifteen inches, and 
feeds on worms, crabs, and small fish. The fiesh is coarse, and 
scarcely eatable. 
^ Whether they are common, except in the mouth of the river 
Esk, at Whitby, Yorkshire (as Mr. Pennant acquaints us) we a.® 
not informed. It appears to us to be a rare, or at least a local kind, 
and It was not without some trouble we procured a specimen of it 
tor the present work. 
In the dorsal fin are 92 rays: pectoral 48 : ventral 2: anal 6S: 
and in the tail 48. 
