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PLATE XVL 
COTTUS CATAPHRACTUS. 
POGGE, OR ARMED BULL-HEAD. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Head broader than the body, and spinous : eyes vertical, and far- 
’’•shed with a nictitant membrane : six rays in the gill membrane : 
round, without scales, and tapering towards the tail ; one or 
dorsal fin. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Loi icated or mailed, beak or upper jaw warted, and furnished with 
"'o Upright bifid spines : under jaw and throat beset with cirri. 
^TTus Cataphractus : loricatus, rostro verrucis 2 bifidis, capitc 
subtus cirroso. Faun. Suec. 324. — Gmel. 
^ Linn. Syst. Nat. T. 1. p.Z. p. 1207. sp. 1 
°hus cirris plurimis, corpore octagono. Mus. Ad. Fr. l. p. 70. 
^°gge. Will. Icth. 211. — Raii. Syn. pise, 'll- 
Bull-Head, or Pogge. Renn. Brit. Zool. Vol. 3. 
p. 217. sp. 98. 
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j. species frequents the British shores in some plenty, and is 
^d on most other coasts of Europe. It feeds on crabs, and other 
insects, worms, &c. 
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