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is red 3 the opening of the mouth is large, and there are no pinnules over the eyes % 
the upper jaw falls over the lower, and both are covered with thick lips: the whole body 
is covered with a lubricous fluid, and the back fin reaches almoft from the head to the 
tail: the ground colour of the fifh is a greyifh olive, but it is elegantly variegated with 
tinges of bluifh, greenifh, and feveral other bright colours, moft of which go off, in 
a great meafure, when it dies: the tail is large, and is circular at the extremity 3 the 
back fin has thirty-fix rays 3 the pinna ani twenty-eight 5 the pe&oral fins have eleven 
rays each, and the ventral ones only two, 
This fpecies is caught in the Mediterranean and the Ocean ■ we have it frequently 
about the fhores of Cornwal, and fome other of the weftern parts of England. Ron- 5 
delet, Gefner, Jonfton, and many others call it Alauda non criftata 3 Aldrovand^ 
Alauda marina 3 the Italians call it Gale&os and we, the Bullard. 
Blennius crifla capitis tranfoerfa cutacea. 
The Blennius , with a tranfverfe, cutaceous crejl on the head, 3 H&UD& 
This is a very pretty fifh, and it’s head is of a very lingular figure 3 it is compref- 
fed, and fomewhat acuminated on the top, though lefs fo than that of the former 
fpecies 5 but what gives it the great Angularity of appearance, is what authors call the 
creft 3 this is a lobe of a triangular figure and cutaceous fubftance, red at the edges 3 
and paler elfewhere, and is fituated between the eyes: the body of the fifh is varie¬ 
gated with feveral bright colours, upon a dufky livid olive : the back fin reaches nearly 
from the head to the tail 3 the pedtoral fins are larger than in the former fpecies, and 
obtufe 5 and the belly fins are placed very forward, and have only two bones each. 
This fpecies is frequent in the Mediterranean, and is caught alfo in many other 
places. Rondeletius calls it Galerita 3 Jonfton and Aldrovand, Alauda criftata 3 Gef¬ 
ner and Willughby, Alauda criftata five Galerita 5 and Gefner, Alauda criftata five 
Galerita prima. 
Blennius maculis circiter decern nigris , limho albo , utrinque 
ad pinnam dorfalem. )t IBtlfe 
The Blennius, with about ten black /pots , with a white edge, 
on each fide, at the root of the back fin . 
This grows to about fix inches in length, and an inch in breadth 3 the body is fome¬ 
what comprefled, fo that it is lefs than that in diameter : it’s whole body is elegantly 
variegated with a reddifh-brown, a deep olive colour, a bright green, and a deeper 
and more dufky green and white 3 and on each fide, at the root of the back fin, there 
are ten or twelve elegant, round, black fpots, each furrounded with a white limb or 
verge : the head is fmall and comprefled 5 the mouth is large and bent upwards; the 
eyes are fmall, and are covered with a fkin 3 the iris is of a gold yellow, or fometimes 
of an orange colour 5 there is only a Angle row of teeth in the jaws, but there are fome 
bones alfo in the fauces: the fcales are very minute, and, indeed, on the livipg fifh 
are fcarce perceptible : the pedtoral fins are rounded, and have each eleven rays 5 their 
colour is an elegant yellow : the ventral fins ftand almoft in the middle of the breaft, 
and nearly perpendicular under the others: the back fin runs the whole length of the 
back, and feven or eight of the rays of it are prickly : the pinna ani is long, and of 
a yellow colour, fpotted with brown 3 it has forty rays, and the two firft of them are 
aculeated 3 the tail is roundifh. 
We have this fpecies in our own feas 3 it is frequently caught upon the coaft of 
Cornwal, where our people call it the Butter-fifh. Authors call it the Gunellus Cor- 
nubienfium and Liparis. 
The other fpecies of the Blennius are, 1. The Blennius, with pinniform and bifid 
cirri under the throat, and with tranfverfe areolae on the back 5 this is called by au¬ 
thors the Lumpen Antverpiae, the Muftela vulgaris, and the Galea pifcis. 2. The 
Blennius, with the head and back of a brownifh-yellow, fpotted with black, and with 
the pinna ani yellow 3 this is called by authors Muftela vivipara, Muftela marina vivi- 
para, and tertia Muftelae fpecies. 
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