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gurnards. 
their 
n^l.sh name from the firm, rugged, and bony structure of 
in'^the^tL' Gurnard being significant of this character 
u the ancxent language of Britain. The summit of the head 
IS high; and it slopes obliquely to the tinem n- i ^ 
over the „o„,h i„ i d.„blo\„7j ggla 
on a level with the ton of tiro ir ^ i t Pt^^^ess. ihe eyes are 
the cheeks firmly fixL and the ’ U laterally; 
orbree t bone h “ lengthened ,ith a broad eternnnr 
rectr,t b “d b U’ ““ “Pioons rays; 
Le r ,b ' “ particularly dialiuguisbee thia genua 
diately bell* Ae'’ p«orarfilT- wirh"" 
on a double of joints no. ’conuLtoTlTtUthe Z' “Zac 
proccaaea or fingers .re supplied n-ith peculiar „ iea and 
consequently are in possession of special f„,.eti„„. tU' r^ 
are organ, of feeling i, „ot .o bi doubted but tbj fi l, Z 
also beea seen, „l,e„ .eating on the gr„'„„,r , , e“ 
pectoral fins, and to creen with an ^ ^ ^ close tlie 
the help of those proeessL, as > 
that could be employed without « • v- i ° motion 
^vhich the motion of the fins might^possfblf X. ' AlUf Xr 
sies are remarkably furnished with air-bladders, which yary 
n shape according to the species; but all of them are firm i[ 
X ure, with muscular fibres interwoven with their fibrous 
texture, and are so loosely fastened to the baek-bone, as to 
be capable of being removed from the body without the loss 
of theoContained air. By this structure of the air-bladder the 
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