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mote times, in classing together the so-called Mullus harhatus 
and 31. imherbis, will not be found without some excuse; for 
these two fishes bear considerable resemblance to each other 
in their general form and colour, as well as habits, and the 
latter is often caught in the same net with the Surmullet; 
added to which, when taken it is usual for the barbs of the 
Mullet to he drawn beneath the throat, thus rendering the 
resemblance still more close. 
The existence of the three processes or fingers near the 
pectoral fins in the Streaked Gurnard, might, indeed, hare 
been sufficient at any time to point out the generic difference 
between them; but it had not that efiect even with such 
observant and systematic naturalists as Artedi, Linnscus, and 
Gronovius, who have agreed to class this fish with the 
"Gurnards, (Triglce,) although ‘Willoughby and Ray had long 
before marked the distinction between them. 
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