Une histoire des poissons des îles britanniques . o-où, sauf dans les climats très chauds; et bien que lorsque les voyages le long des côtes de l'Afrique et de l'Inde étaient devenus des espèces de sécolalespèces fréquentes deviennent connues des observateurs de la nature, ils n'étaient longtemps considérés que comme d'étranges freaks de la nature, ce qui pourrait ajouter un nouvel intérêt aux armoires des curieux, mais dont les habitudes et la distribution sur le globe ne couldbe qu'un peu étudié. Il y avait en effet quelques particularités dans lesquelles les naturalistes qui n'étaient pas chanceux de travellerswere, car avec seulement un peu de soin ils pourraient se faire

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A history of the fishes of the British Islands . o-where except in very warm climates; and although when voyagesalong the coasts of Africa and India had become frequent severalspecies became known to the observers of nature, they werefor a long time regarded only as strange freaks of nature, which might add a new interest to the cabinets of the curious, but of which the habits and distribution over the globe couldbe only a little studied. There were indeed a few particularsabout them in which naturalists who were not travellerswere fortunate, for with only a little care they might bebrought to this country without distortion of shape, whichwas far from being the case generally with numerous fishesof other classes that were imported into England from thesame regions—illustrations of which may be seen in the worksof our older writers, but especially in the representations o^the fishes of Amboyna in the work of Ruysch, entitledTheatrum Omnium Animalium; and there is good reason tobelieve that the distortions inflicted on some were made. z o FOUR-HORNED TRUNK.JISII. 367 designedly, for the purpose of rendering what was strange andremarkable still more hideous or curious. It is to one of these fish, as referred to above, to whichI would call the attention of British naturalists as layingclaim to be regarded as a lately-discovered, and of courserare visitor to our shores, the evidence of which we shallproduce; but that any of this genus should be met with, evenin the warmer seas of Europe, was not thought of until theresearches of Kisso led it to be understood that a fewexamples which belonged to two species of this family hadcome Avithin his notice in the neighbourhood of Nice. Thesewere Ostracion cuhicus and 0. trigonus of Linnaeus; and thiswriter assures us of the certainty of what he relates concerningthem, although he appears to have been prepared for theincredulity with which his statement would be received bymany naturalists. A third species seems to be hinted at b

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