PLATE 1. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER 
AND 
SYNONYMS. 
Three appendages. Lateral line pricklv- Pectoral fins large, green 
and blue. 
Trigla HiRUNno ; digitis ternis, linea lateral! aculeata. Gnid- 
Linn. Syst. Nat. j). 1344. Sp. 6. — Mull- 
prodr. Zool. dan. p. 47. n. 400. — Fn. Sv. 
3 iO.— It. Wgbth. p.\16. 
Trigla capite aculeato, appendicibus utrinque tribus ad pinnas pecto- 
rales. Art. gen. 4:\. syn. 13. 
Ilirundo prior. Aldr.pisc. p. 135. 
Tubfish. Cornub. Wil. Icth. 280. — Eaii. syn. pise. 88. 
Few genera of the fish tribe are more distinguished by a peculiar 
brilliancy of colours than that of Trigla in general. Of this genus 
we have five species on our coasts, and of those the Sappharine 
Gurnard is certainly the most remarkable, if not the most beautiful- 
This kind is, in particular, distinguished by the magnitude of the 
pectoral fins, which, when expanded, might seem capable of support- 
ing it in such little aerial flights as some kinds of fishes are known 
to undertake when pursued by enemies in their native element. 
The first dorsal fin consists of nine rays, the second of seventeen, 
the pectoral fin of nine, ventral six, anal fourteen, and caudal sixteen- 
This species is found on the southern shores of Wales ; and we 
have also seen it from Devon.shire, It is usuallv from ten to eiditeen 
inches in length; 
