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BOGUE. 
figure is derived. The specimen itself was afterwards preserved, 
and is now in the Museum of the Eoyal Cornwall Institution 
at Truro. Since that time several examples have been caught 
at the same place, and one of them was presented to the 
British Museum by W. P. Cocks, Esq. 
The general habits of this fish hear some resemblance to 
the others of this family, and especially in its food, which is 
partly animal — of such small creatures as fall in its way. 
But it also feeds on sea vegetables, and is consequently found 
to keep chiefly in places where they most abound. Its teeth, 
the form of which we copy from Cuvier, are well fitted to 
crop these weeds from the rocks; and its mtestines are long, 
convoluted, and capacious, as is the case with all creatures, 
as well of the land as water, which are hr the habit of 
making vegetables a considerable portion of their food. 
It is said to be an agreeable diet, and hence, we are told, 
it meets with a ready sale. 
The Bogue grows to the length of eight or nine inches. 
Jonston says it reaches to a foot, but Willoughby remarks that 
he never met with one of so great a length; and yet the 
example from which our figure and description are taken, 
measured in extreme length the dimensions assigned to it by 
the first-named writer. The general form is thick and solid; 
the head small proportionahly to the bulk of the body, and 
the gape narrow. The teeth are wide, thin, and cutting, of 
the shape seen in the figure. The greatest depth of the 
specimen described was closely behind the termination of the 
pectoral fin, where it measnred two inches and seven eighths, 
and from thence it tapers to the origin of the tail. The eye 
is larger than in others of its family; cheeks and body with 
large scales; lateral line' high and straight. The dorsal fin is 
highest at its beginning, and from thence it grows narrow in 
its progress, as does also the anal fin; the pectorals rather 
narrow. The colour along the back, from the snout to the 
tail, is a bluish purple, mottled along the top of the head, 
and with tints of pink and vermilion about the eyes. By 
authors who have studied this fish in its more native haunts, 
the stripes along the sides are described as of a brilliant 
gold-colour, separated by stripes of bright silver; the belly 
silvery. But in the Cornish example the yellow on the sides 
