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The Hifiory of ANIMALS. 
Trigla rofiro diacantho , naribus tubulofis . ' ^ 
The Trigla , with a bifid rofirum , tubulofe nofirils . fBIpCT* 
The head of this fpecies is very large, in proportion to the body : the mouth is re¬ 
markably wide ; the eyes are large ; they hand at a very fmall diftance from each 
other at the top of the head, and are covered with a fkin: the bony covering of the 
head is angulated, and terminates in two horns at the hinder part; the r oft rum is 
formed into two fpines, and at the upper part of the orbits of the eyes there is alfo a ro- 
buft and crooked fpine: the body is fornewhat rounded, and of a conic figure ; very 
large toward the head, and extreamly fmall at the tail: over each of the pedoral fins 
there ftands a very robuft and fharp thorn, and there are, on each fide, three articu¬ 
lated appendages: the back is rounded or convex, but it has a furrow in it with twen¬ 
ty-fix prickles on each fide : the lateral line is fcarce at all rough, and there are about 
feventy punda on each fide ; the fifh grows to more than a foot in length : the firft of 
the two back fins has ten prickly rays, the fecond has eighteen ; the pedoral fins have 
twelve each; the ventral ones have each fix, and the firft of them is aculeated. 
This fpecies is frequent in the Mediterranean, nor lefs fo in the Ocean ; we have it 
in great abundance about our own fhores: when caught, it makes a very fingular and 
loud noife. Ariftotle and the reft of the Greek writers call it Aup« ; Paulus Jovius calls 
it Capo; Rondelet, Gefner, and Jonfton, Lyra; Ray and Willughby, Lyra prior. 
The Genoefe call it, Organo; and we, the Piper. 
Trigla cirris plurimis , corpore oElagono. 
The Trigla , with numerous beards, and with an off agonal body. 
This is an extreamly fingular fpecies: the head is very large, and of an angulated 
figure : the mouth is wide; the eyes are large, and ftand near one another on the top 
of the head ; their iris is of a golden yellow, and the pupil black: the roftrum or an¬ 
terior extremity of the head is protended into two long and fharp fpines: the fcales are 
hard, elevated, and of a rhomboidal figure; there are fix feries of them, and thefe 
give the body an odtagonal figure : there are two articulated appendages. The colour of 
the whole fifh is a pale red : the orbits of the eyes are furrounded with a double fe¬ 
ries of fpines, and the neftrils are not confpicuous: the back fin is fupported by twen¬ 
ty-fix rays, which are not prickly : the pedoral fins have each twelve rays; the ven¬ 
tral ones have fix each, and the pinna ani has nineteen : the fins all are of a paler co¬ 
lour than the body, as is alfo the tail. 
This fpecies is frequent in the Mediterranean, and is not lefs fo in the Ocean about 
our own coafts. Rondelet, Willughby, and Ray call it Lyra altera ; Salvian, fimply, 
Lyra; Gefner calls it, Lyra cornuta five Lyra altera; Bellonius, Coccyx altera five 
major. The Italians call it Pefce capone and Pefce forca ; the Genoefe call it Malar- 
mat ; and we, the Piper, confounding it by that name with the former fpecies. 
SCORPiENA. 
/~TT“A H E head of the Scorpasna is very large and very prickly; there is only one 
fin on the back, and that is low in the middle: the body grows very flender, as 
it comes toward the tail: the eyes ftand very near one another, and are covered with 
a fkin, and there are teeth in the fauces and on the palate, as well as in the jaws: the 
branchioftege membrane contains feven bones. 
Scorpeena pinnulis ad oculos et nares . 
The ScGrpcena y with pinnules at the eyes and nofirils. 
This fpecies very much relembles the common pearch in it’s general figure : the 
head is large, and odly figured, and is ornamented with four pinnules; two of tbefe 
are placed at the eyes, and the other two at the noftrils: the eyes are large, and ftand 
almoft clofe to one another on the top of the head : their iris is of a gold yellow, and 
the pupil black : the mouth is large, and furnifhed with a great number of teeth ; the 
body is large toward the head, but it grows very fmall, as it approaches the tail: the 
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