PLATE LI. 
This Fish appears to be described for the first time by Pay, in tfic 
Appendix to his Synopsis, under the provincial of Whiff; the 
name by which it is commonly known in the maritime parts of 
Cornwall, Mr, Ray speaks of this Fish only on the authority of 
Mr. George Jago, by whom it is said to have been originally disco-> 
vered ; or, in other words, discriminated with sufficient accuracy to 
be considered as an undescribed species. It is thus defined specifically = 
" Passer Cornuhiensis asper, magno oris hiatu and in the Plate 
which accompanies the description, the Whiff is represented with 
tolerable fidelity, 
Tire author of the British Zoology (Mr. Pennant) next includes thi* 
species among the fishes of this country. The resemblance which he 
perceives between the Whiff and the Holibut is by no means obviods 
to us; but although no figure is annexed to the account given of his fish, 
we have no hesitation in admitting it to be the same as that before de- 
scribed by Mr. Ray under the name of Whiff. Mr. Pennant says one 
was brought to him by his fisherman, October 31, 1775, and gives the 
following description of it. — “ Its length was eighteen inches, the 
greatest breadth not seven, exclusive of the fins. The mouth extremely 
large : teeth very small : the under jaw hooks over the upper : tire 
eyes large, and placed on tire left side. The scales great and rough : 
the side-line uncommonly Incurvated at the beginning. After makirfg 
a sharp angle, goes strait to the tail, and is tuberculated : the tail i* 
rounded. The colour of the upper part of the body is cinereous 
brown, clouded in parts, and obscurely spotted : the under side whiftt 
tinged with red.” This is all that Mr. Pennant relates respecting ths 
Whiff in the British Zoology, but the same fish is again mentioned it' 
his Tour through North Wales, wherein he informs us, that “ in th® 
year 1 777, (about the month of November) that rare species 
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