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PLATE LXXXm. 
^umstances. Mr. Travis, the son of the medical gentleman who fur- 
^ished Mr. Pennant with the specimen he describes, informs us, the 
Lallan wrasse is the fish commonly known by the name of the old 
'''ife among the fishermen on the Scarborough coasts where it ap- 
pears in shoals in the summer, and that there is only one sort usually 
found in those parts ; this we have examined, and have no hesitation 
*u saying it is the Ballan wrasse of Pennant, and the Labrus tinea 
*^f every other Ichthyological writer. 
fish are seraicireular appear of no determinate figure, scarcely two being formed 
ij, V. 4. p. 2. 499. is merely a repetition of 
same figure, and of courfe exhibits the same defect. In the last mentioned work it is 
’^®corded as a species on liie authority of Pennant. ^ 
small degree of ambiguitj' is attached likewise to the figure and history of the ancient 
"''asse in Pennant’s British Zoology. His description accords with the common ivrasse, hut 
figure given of the ancient wrasse is entirely at variance with it. This latter is referred 
as doubtful, but we are surprized the author copld have entertained tlie least eoncep- 
of Its being the same, if that figure be correct. In Brit. .tool. v. 3. pi. 4:7. n. li5. 
a describes the ancient wrasse as having sixteen spiny rays, and nine soft, wliilc in his 
Sure of that fish there are no less than twenty five spiny rays, and thirteen soft ; the tail 
contains sixteen rays instead of fourteen as described, and tlie anal fin thirteen soft 
‘‘Js besides the spiny ones in lieu of the nine enumerated. It is furllier observable that 
figurfe there is neither a sinking between the dorsal fin and tail, nor any sulcus 
the nose. It might be therefore from a comparative view of this figure with the 
^^Ballan wrasse,” that Mr. Pennant was induced to consider the latter as a species 
*tmct from the ancient wrasse, which last, it is probable, he copied from the work of 
“Pother author. 
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