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GURNARD. 
grey gurnard, crooner. CROONACK — Tr , r . 
-eann.g Scotland to n.ake a dull croakir-ise. 
GOWDIE. hardhead. 
Gucidus griseus, 
guy-nau^ 
^i'igla guriiai’djxs. 
WiLLononBY; p. 279, Tab. S. 2 f. 1 
Eiackpede. Risso. 
Flemixg; British Animals, p. 215 
Jenyxs; Manual, p, 31,2. 
YARRiaL; British Fishes, vol. ii, p. 53 
Linn;eu.s. Cuvier. Block; pi. 58 
iJosovAS ; pi. 30. 
01.0 ie..%e„jb,e A: .iro^rr "“s » 
cold, and therefore it is as no influence of heat and 
Scotland and Ireland as in northern coasts of 
being also veckoned amo„; thffi-r“‘\ n'l 
From the notes I have been / ° ^ikney and Shetland. 
Honourable the Earl of Enniskiltr'Tt 
the month of .Tune this species appears'^n d"' 
enormous shoals, and is then eacr„ , Donegal Bay in 
Besides such as are used fresh larlJ by fishermen, 
and laid up in store. ’ ^ quantities are then salted 
Its habits are social so fir 0 = i . 
not only do they commonly keep Sefh 
sometimes in the fine weather of ° tiompanies, but 
.ob-ethe, in i„,e numw';"..:/ :"zr" 
deep water, with no other apparent object thaS tb ' "" 
of the season; and when thus aloft they move , A 
pace, and rising and sicking i„ ,he ZZT 
.«d nttcring a short grunt, as if in seif-graUfita^l^'t^;: 
