FISHES. THORACIC, Cottus. 
inhabits India and South America ; makes a Iqueaking noife 
when it is handled ; body brown with numerous pun 61 ;ures, 
the Irdes varied with white and brown ; flefh good, except 
the liver which is poifonous, efpecially in the fummer 
months. 
H^ad large ; eyes fmall, pupil black, ins red ; mouth very large ; 
tongue broad, and with the palate frtiooth ; losVer jazo longer ; 
teeth flrarp, diftant, curved inwards; aperture oi th& gills 
very large, the cover of one piece, armed with 4 fpines, the 
membrane loofe ; ‘Cent in the middle of the body ; fins fpot- 
ted with brown, the rays generally branched ; peUoral and 
ventral reddilh, the reft cinereous ; ventral and dorfial with, 
fimple rays, the 2 anterior rays of the firft dorfal fpinous. 
Dorfi. 3, 20 : pell. 22 : vent. 4 : an. iS-, caud. 11 rays. 
Head and lines down the body with ferrate fcales lateral 
line aculeate. Prickly B. 
Inhabits India ; feeds on teftaceous animals and crabs ; body 
compreffed, filvery, girded with 6 reddilh bands, and cover- 
ed with fmall, hard, toothid, firmly flicking fcales. 
Head oblong, with 4 fpines turned back, and covered with 
fmall, rough leaks at the fides ; eyes vertical, oblong, pupil 
bhek, iris filvrrv ; lower j'-jiu longer, teeth in each; tongue 
broad, thin ; mouth and aperture of the gills large ; /aiernt 
line rough with ptickles turned back ; vent in the middle of 
the body ; rays of the fins moflly fpHt t peBoral fhoit, 
broad, yellow at the bale, with variegated rays ; ventral long, 
blueiih. wi'h 3 ydlov; bars ; fiifl dorfial tawny, with fimple 
fpinOus rays, th; other fiins blueiih \rith variegated rays. 
Dorfi. ti ; pzB. 2 ; vent. 6 ; au. 11 caud. 12 rays. 
^<is. Head armed with numerous I.afge fpines ; upper jaw a lit- 
tle longer. Father Lafiher. 
Inhabits deep places hear the fhores of Europe, Newfoundland 
and Greenland : is very fierce and fwift ; leldom with uS ex- 
ceeding 9 or 10 int hes ; follows fhavks and other large pre- 
dacious fifh, lafhing them wi n its fpines, which it is able 
to" diftend in a for.ou.'lable manner, till they are forced to 
abandon: its haunts ; body compreffed, tapenng towards the 
tail, covered with iirip.il fpines, above brown with whim dots 
and lines, beneath whitilh ; the flefh is eaten by the Green- 
landers. 
Head with 2 foft, large tubercles before the eyes ; per rirge, 
oblong, vertical, pupil black, iris pale ye'low ; cheens com- 
prelTed ; mouth very large ; both jaws able to be protruded 
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