THE 
EUROPEAN FROGFISPX. 
Generic Character. 
PeEloral Fins forming an elbow-like joint. 
Specific Character , &c. 
Depreffed LOPH 1 US, with the head wider than 
the body. 
Common Angler. 
Pennant Brit. Zool. 4. p. 105. pi. 18. 
The Frogfifh, Fifhing Frog, or Sea-Devil. 
This moll lingular fifh is occalionally taken about 
the Britifh coafts, and has been fometimes feen of 
the length of fix or feven feet. Its general color is 
a dulky brown above, and pale or whitilh beneath : 
the edges of the head and body are furrounded by a 
multitude of Ihort, fringed fkins or procefles, placed 
at equal diftances from each other : on the fore part 
of the head, above the eyes, are fituated certain long 
tentacula or filaments; and it is imagined that by 
the affiftance of thefe, while it is lying imbedded in 
the fand, waiting for its prey, it induces the fmaller 
filh to approach, which, being deceived by the fi- 
militude, miftake the tentacula for worms, and arc 
thus readily feized by the Frogfilh. 
