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tubfish. 
Sf^ppjih'ine Q-UTTiardf 
Trigla hirundo. 
n 
(t 
(( 
<( 
Trigla liirondelle. 
Willoughby; p. 280. 
L1NH.2EUS; but there is an error in 
his specific character in assigning 
to it a spinous lateral line. 
Donovan; pi. 1, but badly repre- 
sented, especially in the head. 
Fleming; British Animals, p. 214 . 
Jentns; Manual, p. 340. 
Yareell; Br. Fishes, vol. i, p. 47. 
the head is represented too narrow’ 
Gunther; Cat. of Br. Museum, yol 
ii> p. 202. 
Lacepede. Ersso. Bloch ; pi. 60 . 
The name of the household vessel a tub d • dr 
r “It ? 
.w„„, 
At IB as common as the EllpcW wiib 1 • • 
confounded, and for which it k not f sometimes 
in the market. But it is ml « b ^ substituted 
fish, although their habits are nelly the Tame' if 
more scarce as we nroceerl unvtb 1 ™ ^ ^ becomes 
enumeration of fishes in Zetland." omitted from the 
Ihe Tubfish keeps near the a-rouurl 1 .. 
depth; but it occasionally rises to Z T ^™^i<ierable 
of kindred species are knTwrto 1 rf?’ " 
fish, and such fishes as it is able to fi f ®^oll- 
among stones or sand, and readily takes a' bah 
large as a halfim-own a donax, aL small soil o^LT TheTl 
have been obtained from its stomach. I have found ii ' Tb 
enlarged roe at Christmas, and also in May and July. ^ 
