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THE GATTORUGIHg* 
Ihc Gattorugine *. 
’’X'hE fpecies lias been found on the coaft of Wales ; the 
body is -without fcales, and lubricated with a {limy Tub- 
fiance. Towards the bead it is thick, gradually dimi' 
nilhing towards the tail; the Tides all along confideiably 
compreffed. It is above of a dufky hue, marked acrois 
with undulating lines ; below of a pale afh colour, the 
ventral and pedloral fins partly orange. The rays of all 
the fins of this fpccies project beyond their webs, and 
have a fpiny appearahcee. The eyes are fituated alrnoft 
upon the fummit of the head, contiguous, and extremely 
protuberant ; between them ariles a kind of creft, which 
feparates into four branches, and which can be raifed or 
deprefled by the animal at pleafure. The cirri forming 
this creft are thick at the bafe, fliarpening towards the 
top, and fetaceous along the Tides f. 
Similar to the gattorugine, is the crefted blenny, a fill* 
diftinguifhed by the fame creft-like fin upon the top 
the head. Its refidenpe is the fame; for it is alway 3 
found on thp rocky ftiores, where it probably feeds 0(1 
crabs and fmall Ihell-fifh; the remains of thofe animal 3 
being found in its ftomach %. 
The fraopth blenny refembles the ctefted, alrnoft 111 
pvery refpect, except that of the fmoothnefs of its for e ' 
bead, which is deilituteof that ere£l fin, the ufe of whi c ^ 
po naturalift has hitherto pointed out. 
* Gattorugine Vinetiis, Will. Blemiius Gattorugine, Lin. Syft» 
^ yid. V/iilough. p. 13 s. { Brit. Zool, 
