SG4 
lIirPOCAMPUS. 
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i)ermanently bent at an angle with the bodj'; which from its resem- 
blance to the head of a horse, has given occasion to a name ot these 
fishes. The males have a pouch for hatching the young. 
HIPPOCAMPUS. 
Sea Horse, Short-nosed Hippocampus, Willoughby; p. 157, 
Table I 25, f. 4. 
LiXN/EUS. 
Cuvier. Yarbell; British 
Syngnathus hippocampus, 
Hippocampus brevirostris, 
Fishes, vol. ii, p. 452. 
This curiously-shaped little fish is common in the IMediter- 
ranean, but becomes more rare south of this, and to the north, 
although it has been obtained at several stations on the south 
coast of England and in Ireland; and as it scarcely appears 
capable of a long voyage, we are led to the conclusion that it 
must have been bred not far from where it has been obtained. 
AVe are informed that it has been met with at T armouth, in 
Hampshire; and Sir. Martin, of Weymouth, informs me that he 
has frequently taken them in a shrimp-trawl along the Sandivich 
Hats in Kent. I have heard of one that was taken in the 
Tamar; and in Ireland, on the authority of Mr. Thompson, it 
has been taken in Dublin Bay, at Belfast, the county ot 
Antrim, at Youghal and Smerwick Harbour, on the coast of 
Kerry. Mr. Lukis has given an interesting account of the 
habits of a couple which he obtained in Guernsey, and kept 
alive for a considerable time. 
