244 
FISHES. 
Malarmat, (Cuvier) or Mailed gurnard has been 
captured near the Eddystone, and the specimen is 
described and figured by Dr. Moore in the Magazine 
of Natural History. This is the only instance known 
of its visits to the British coast, and probably our 
southern shores constitute its northern limit. A 
specimen of * Sciurus Lusitanicus taken in Corn¬ 
wall, is in the Museum of the Plymouth Institution. 
Xiphias gladius, or Sword fish , has been known to 
occur somewhere in the Channel near us. 
110, total of the fishes here recognized as forming' 
part of our Fauna, but certainly not comprising all 
that have yet been noticed. Total of those limited 
to Devon, or to Cornwall, or to Devon and 
Cornwall conjointly, 41, so far as can well be 
gathered. Total of the whole of the species here 
stated as occurring in Devon and Cornwall, 153, 
but by no means comprising all mentioned in 
Couch’s Fauna. 
The above catalogue includes a variety of rare 
species, of which however I must regret my in¬ 
ability to say much in regard of their physical 
distribution or chief habitats, and indeed much in¬ 
formation has not as yet been obtained in regard 
of this department of Ichthyology, but I may at all 
events affirm that we derive much from our situation 
at the meeting of several large portions of the ocean, 
and our approximating position to climates and 
their productions w T hich differ not a little from our 
own. But on the whole, want of attention to the 
tribe of fishes prevents us from making any but 
very cautious and provisional assertions. Owing to 
the great exertions of Mr. Couch a larger number 
of species of fish have been recognized in Cornwall 
than have been enumerated as occurring with us, 
but probably the same sort of exertion is alone re¬ 
quired in Devonshire to extend the list to all equal 
size. I do not pretend however that the above 
