PHYCI3. 
Bout ot moderate S"’ '2 tho'di.&siiiehins 
ot > «.dl. 1»S 
Slot. rS. e»,.. ot i» lonsth » «.d »«. 
greater fork beard. 
Hahe's Dame, Forked Hake, Goat fish, 
Pliysds furcatus, 
Phycis furcatus, 
Ph/ycis hleuuoidcs, 
Jago; in Bay’s Synopsis, p. 
16‘3 and f. 7. 
Couch; in Transactions of 
Linnffian Society, vol. xiv. 
Flemish; British Animals, p. 
193. 
Jesyns; Manual, p. 452. 
Yakbell; British Fishes, vol. 
ii, p. 289. 
Gustheb; Catalogue British 
Museum, vol. iv, p- 351 ? 
• kra ••orravdpd as scavce rather than rare; 
so'^tL't eirjksThow themselves singly, for the most paa-t m 
the colder months, although I have obtained an “ 
T and there are not usuaUy more than one or two caught 
LT’se“o» IVy are taleu with a hook, amd in the stomach 
f toe found the hones ot a small 4sh, a stamp, and the 
Lumont of a Urge poc.en-shelh From the feeble structae 
If hs taU it does not appear capable of .ot.ve e«.™n ^ 
this app.arent defect rs probably compensated ^ 
of those long tendrils which stand in the place f 
t Xch Ung to dre others of this 
which in this rnetance may j"' 1' tendrils 
to be endued with powers of Iwely sensatio sunnlied 
or «ns toe joints along their conrse, and are well supplied 
