In the gurnards and related forms the lower rays of the pectoral are separate and barbel-like.
I don't know whether the flyinggurnards are good eating or not; but the silvery flying fish are caught for market (sad desecration of the poetry of nature!
Although never found very far from the coast, gurnards descend to depths of several hundred fathoms; and as they are bottom-fish they are caught chiefly by means of the trawl.
Gurnards are coast-fishes, generally distributed over the tropical and temperate areas; of the forty species known six occur on the coast of Great Britain, viz.
When caught and taken out of the water, gurnards emit a grunting noise, which is produced by the vibrations of a diaphragm situated transversely across the cavity of the bladder and perforated in the centre.
Anglers of our time have proved that Tench croak like frogs; Herrings cry like mice; Gurnards grunt like hogs; and some say the Gurnard makes a noise like a cuckoo, from which he takes one of his country names.
During these movements the gurnards resembled insects moving along the sand.
Him, to her joy, Esther perceived--she saw a stack of gurnards on his improvised slab, and in imagination smelt herself frying them.
At least forty different kinds of gurnards have been discovered, but nearly all dwell along foreign coasts.
With this forbidding appearance, however, the gurnards are among the most resplendent inhabitants of the sea.
Why, there was a big turbot, and a sole or two, and a great skate with a prickly back, and gurnards and dog-fish.
It seldom exceeds six inches in length, and is classed with the Flying Gurnards in the family Dactylopteridae.
This is notably the case with gurnards and a few of the other fishes that spend their time almost exclusively on the bed of the sea.
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