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and Ray, Lucerna Venetorum 5 and Salvian, Cuculus. The people of Naples call it 
Cocco 3 the Genoefe, Organo 3 and the Maflilians, Galline. 
Trigla tota rubens roflro parum bkorni , opercults branchia - 
rum ftriatis. 
The red Trigla , with the roftrum fomewhat bifid , and the 
coverings of the gills Jlriated. 
This is a very lingular fifth, and is not without it’s beauty : it is all over of a line 
ftrong red, between a crimfon and fcarlet: the head is large, deprefled, and of a fi¬ 
gure approaching to fquare : the mouth is large, and well furnifhed with teeth in the 
jaws, and on the palate, and in the fauces; the roftrum is bifid at the extremity, but 
the flit is not deep : the eyes are moderately large, and ftand at a fmall diftance from 
one another on the top of the head : the noftrils have each a double aperture 3 the an¬ 
terior is round, and the other a tranfverfe flit 3 they ftand nearly in the middle between 
the eyes and the roftrum : the coverings of the gills are deeply ftriated, and each of 
them is armed with three fpines 3 two of thefe ftand near one another on the lower 
part, and the other, which is larger than either of them, on the upper : the extremity 
of the roftrum, where it is forked, terminates alfo in two fharp fpines: the body is 
largeft toward the head, and thence grows immediately fmaller, and toward the tail is 
very (lender : the back is convex, and of a deeper red than the lides 3 the belly is of 
a pale flefh colour. 
This fpecies is frequent in the Northern Seas 3 it makes a lingular noife, when out 
of the water : fome have fuppofed it like the grunting of a hog, others have com¬ 
pared it to the flinging of a cuckow 5 it is not eafy to fuppofe that both accounts are 
right. The antients were very well acquainted with this filh. Ariftotle calls it 
KoKxvg 5 iBlian, Oppian, and Athenasus alfo retain the fame name for it 5 Rondelet, 
Gefner, and feveral others call it Cuculus 3 Bellonius and Gefner, Cuculus minor 3 Scho- 
neveldt, Cuculus Lyras fpecies 5 Charleton calls it, limply, Lyra; and Paulus Jovius, 
Capo. The French call it Marrude 5 the Dutch, Hunchem 5 and we, the red Gur¬ 
nard ; and, in fome places, the Rotchet. We have it in great abundance about the 
Yorklhire Ihore. 
Trigla varia roflro diacantho , aculeis geminis ad utrumque 
oculum . 
The variegated Trigla , with a bifid and fpinofe rofilrum y 
and with two fpines at each eye . 
The head of this fpecies is very large, and of an angulated figure, nearly fquare : the 
mouth is very wide 5 the eyes are large, and are placed at a fmall diftance from one ano¬ 
ther, at the top of the head : the extremity of the roftrum is formed into two, fpines, each 
of which is armed with five or flx little fpinules 3 the back part of the heg<^ is alfo ex¬ 
tended into two horns, and the coverings of the gills have each two robuft fpines: the 
iris of the eyes is of a filvery white, and the pupil is bluifh : the body of the filh is large 
toward the head, but extreamly fmall, v as it comes toward the tail: the back is convex, 
but it has a furrow in it, with feveral denticles arifing from it, as in fome of the 
other fpecies: the Aides are prominent, and the belly alfo is fomewhat prominent 3 the 
lateral line is rough and eminent, and there is a bony fquamma near the pedtoral fins, 
terminating backwards in a very robuft fpine : the pedtoral fins are fmall and obtufe ; 
there are two back fins which are moderately long 3 the pinna ani alfo is long, and the 
tail is broad, and fupported by nineteen rays. 
We have this fpecies in abundance in our own feas: the filhermen on the coaft of 
Cornwall take it in great quantities 3 it makes a lingular noife, when taken out of the 
water : the antients feem not to have known it. Charleton calls it Pifcis Cuculus quern 
grey Gurnard vocant 5 Willughby and Ray, Gornatus five Gurnardus grifeus, names 
formed from the vulgar Englilh one, grey Gurnard. 
