HAN] CEPS. 
The head large, broad, and depressed; body of moderate length, 
witli very small scales. A barb at the loNver jaw; small teeth in 
the jaws and middle of the palate, mingled with stronger ones in 
the former. Two dorsal fins, of which the first is exceedingly small; 
a single anal fin, both disjoined from the tail. Ventral fins jugular, 
with two of its rays much longer than the other. 
LESSER FORKBEARD. 
TABPOI.E FISH. 
BarluB minor, Lesser ForJcleard, 
Blenniiis trifarcatus, 
Batrachoii'le Uennoide, and Blennie 
tridactyle, 
Eaniceps trifurcatus, and H. jago, 
II II “ 
«l «* ** 
Baniceps trifurcus. 
Jago, in Bay’s Synopsis. 
TuRTON’s liTNKiEUS. 
Lacefrde. 
Fi.emxkg; Br. Animals, p. 194. 
Mag. of Zoology, by Sir W. 
Jardine, Bart., vol. i. 
Jen YES; Manual, p. 453. 
Yarreli,; British Fishes, vol. ii, 
p. 292. 
Ghstuer; Cat. Br. Museum, 
vol. iv, p. 367. 
This species was first made known to science by Jago, and 
w'as long believed to rank among our rarest fishes; but, since 
attention has been more generally directed toward the inha- 
bitants of our seas, it is discovered to be not unco.mmon on 
all the coasts of the British islands, where the water is not 
shallow, and the bottom is rough or rocky. 
Yet it appears to be a wandering as well as solitary fish; 
and although several have been taken in a season in the 
west of Cornwall, it is only on one occasion that I have 
