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The Hifiory of ANIMALS. 
bele. The Spaniards call it Voladqr ; the Italians, Rondine ; the Sicilians, Falcone - 
and the Swedes, Flygande Fifke. 
Trigla capite aculeato } appendicihus utrmque tribus ad pinnae 
pe&orales. %l)t 
The Trigla , with a prickly head , and with three appendages fffjh 
at each of the peBoral fitts. 
This is a very lingular fpecies; the head is large, and of an irregularly fquare figure, 
and is prickly : the orbits of the eyes are furrounded with a feries of fhort fpines, and 
there runs a feries of the fame kind of fpines alfo round the verge of the upper jaw : 
the fides of the head alfo are fharp, and, on the back part, the bony covering of it is 
protended backwards into the form of two horns, each terminating in a very fharp 
fpine : the eyes are large, and hand very near one another ; the noftrils have a double 
aperture, and hand at fome diftance below them: the mouth is large and well-fur- 
nifhed with teeth in the jaws, on the palate, and the fauces, and there are feveral lit¬ 
tle irregularities about the verge of it. 
The body of the fifh is large near the head, but it becomes very fmall toward 
the tail; it’s colour is a dufky purplifh-red, variegated with a filvery white, and with 
a bright green : the fcales are very fmall and fmooth, and they adhere very firmly ; 
there is a peculiar fquamma over each of the pedtoral fins, which has a ftrong prickle : 
the lateral line runs fimple to the tail, and is not forked, as in fome of the fpecies: 
the firft of the two back fins has nine rays, the fecond has eighteen; the pedtoral fins 
have each ten rays; the ventral ones have fix each, and the firft of thefe is prickly: 
the pinna ani is very long, and has nineteen rays; the tail is a little forked, and has 
only ten rays: there is a kind of fulcus in the middle of the back, and in this ftand 
twenty-five prickles: the air-bladder in this fifh is divided, as it were, into three 
lobes. 
This fpecies is frequent in the Mediterranean, and in fome other feas; we not un- 
frequently meet with it about the coafts of Cornwall, and elfewhere on the Britifh 
fhores: the antients were acquainted with it: Athenasus calls it ; Aldrovand has 
figured it under the name of Hirundo pifcis prior; Jonfton, Willughby, and Ray 
call it Hirundo; and Pliny, Ifidore, and Salvian, Corvus. The Italians call it Ca¬ 
pone; and our common people of Cornwall, the Tub-fifh. 
Trigla rojlro parum bifido> linea laterali ad caudam hifurca. 
The Trigla , with the roflrum a little bifid\ and the lateral line forked 
toward the tail. 
This is a very beautiful fpecies: the head is large, and of a fquare figure ; the top is 
deprefted, and the roftrum fomewhat bifid at the extremity, but the divifion not deep : 
the eyes are large, and ftand near one another on the top of the head, and there are 
a number of fhort but fharp fpines about them, and on feveral other parts of the head : 
the noftrils are confpicuous, and have each a double aperture ; the mouth is large, 
and is well furnifhed with fharp but fhort teeth; befide thofe in the jaws, there are 
feveral on fome oblong bones in the fauces, and the palate alfo has many on it, but the 
tongue is fmooth. 
The body is biggeft, juft at the head ; it grows very fuddenly lefs from thence, and 
is extreamly fmall at the tail: the back is convex; the belly is fomewhat flatted, and 
the fides are prominent; the general colour is a mixture of olive brown and yellowifh, 
but on the fides there is a beautiful tinge of red : the fcales are fmall and fmooth, and 
there runs a furrow along the middle of the back, in which there are placedjwenty- 
five fpines; at the pedioral fins, on each fide, there are three articulated appendages: the 
lateral line is not fimple ail the way, as in the former, but toward the tail it is forked : 
the firft of the two back fins has ten prickly rays; the fecond has feventeen rays: the 
pedtoral fins have each ten rays; the ventral ones have fix each, and the pinna ani has 
fifteen. 
This fpecies is frequent in the Mediterranean : Pliny calls it Milvus and Milvago ; 
Rondelet and Aldrovand call it alfo Milvus ; Gefner, Lucerna five Milvus; Willughby 
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