THE 
FLYING GURNARD. 
Generic Character. 
Finger-shaped processes before the pectoral 
fins. 
Specieic Character, &c. 
Reddish GURNARD, with numerous fingers 
connected by a web, and olive-coloured 
blue-spotted pectoral fins of the length of 
the body. 
The long-finned GURNARD. 
Der fliegende Seehahn. 
Bloch ’ ichth. t. 351. 
Of all the Trio-las this may be considered as the 
most beautiful in point of color, as well as the most 
remarkable in form, the size of the pectoral fins far 
furpassing those of the Trigla Hirundo, as well as 
of the Trigla punctata before figured in the present 
work. It is a native of the Mediterranean and At¬ 
lantic seas, and is commonly about twelve or fifteen 
inches in length. 
