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COOK. 
CUCKOO WRASS. 
Blue-striped Wrass, 
Striped Wrass, 
Ooquus, Cook, 
Lahrus variegatus, 
“ coqxms, 
Ldbre mele, 
Labrus mixtus. 
W. Thompson’s Ireland, vol. iv, p. 124. 
Pennant. The Latin trivial names imposed 
on this flsh are more in number than we 
shall refer to, but we know no reason why 
the original term applied to it by Jago, 
who first described it, should not be 
maintained. 
Jago; Kay’s Synopsis Piscium, p. 163, f. 4. 
Donovan ; pi. 21, but too stout. 
Jentns; Manual, p. 394. 
Yaubell; Br. Pishes, vol. i, p. 317. 
Risso. 
Linnaius. Guntheb; Catalogue Br. M., 
vol. iv. 
The Cook is one of the commonest of the Wrasses on the 
west coasts of the kingdom, and in its colours much the most 
brilliant; but it becomes more rare as we proceed northward, 
and is scarcely to be met with at the further extremity of the 
British Islands. I am indebted to the kindness of Mr. Iverach, 
of Kirkwall, in Orkney, for the information that he has known 
it caught once at that place, for I suppose this to be the 
species which he has mentioned in the belief that it was the 
Labrus paw of Risso, a kind not yet known in the British 
Islands. According to Nilsson it is not uncommon on the 
coast of Sweden. 
Its habits in the south and west of England are to perform 
a partial migration; or, rather, there is a change of quarters 
according to the season, as being found near the land when 
the weather grows warm, and through the summer and autumn 
it is not unfrequently caught by fishing from the shore. It 
