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THE GURNARlJ. 
jaws, and the whole inner part of the mouth, are cover- 
ed with very i'mall teeth. The eyes are large ; the irides 
of a filver colour, with a tindlure of brown : The noftrils 
are fmall, and placed on the fides of the roftrum : On the 
extremity of the gill covers, is a thick, (harp, and long 
fpine. The firlt dorfal fin confilts of eight fpiny rays i 
the fides of the three firft tuberculated : The fecond has 
nineteen rays, and is lodged, like the former, in a groove, 
rough on each fide. The pe&oral fins are long and trans- 
parent, and Supported by ten rays ; from their bafe hang 
three beards*. The Britijh fillies of this genus are, the 
tub flfh, the feraphine, the flreaked, the gray, and red 
gurnard, and the piper; the laft, Rcndeletius has termed 
the lyre, on account of its bifurcated roftrum, which 
Somewhat refembles that inftrument among the ancients-. 
The whole of this genus is excellent food. 
* Britiilr Zoology, gen. gr. 
