[64] The Saurus of Rondeletius appears to be the Skipper or Saury-pike (_Scombresox saurus_) of modern authors. _Acus major_ is the Gar-fish or Greenback (_Belone vulgaris_); this is the _Acus primus_ of Rondeletius, Dr. Harmer has been good enough to send me the following note on Rondeletius's figures:--"_De Acus secunda specie_" (lib. viii. p. 229). "Two species are figured; the upper figure appears to represent _Siphonostoma typhle_, and the lower one _S. acus_. Günther ('Brit. Mus. Cat.,' viii. p. 157) gives a reference to Rondeletius in his synonyms of _S. acer_ without indicating that the latter figures two species. Under _S. typhle_ (p. 154) he gives the synonym _Syngnathus rondeletii_, De la Roche. A reference to Delaroche ('Ann. Mus. Hist. Nat., Paris,' xiii, 1809 p. 324, Pl. xxi. fig. 5) shows that _S. rondeletii_ is identified with the first figure on p. 229 of Rondeletius; and it may thus be concluded that Günther agrees with this conclusion. It seems therefore probable that Browne's Acus of Aristotle refers to _S. typhle_." The Acus maior calld by some a garfish & greenback answering ye figure of Rondeletius under the name of Acus prima species remarkable for its quadrangular figure and verdigreece green back bone. [L] A lesser sort of Acus [wee _crossed out_] maior or primæ specæei wee meet with [answering the saurus of Rondeletius _crossed out_] much shorter then the co[=m]on garfish & in taking out the spine wee found it not green as in the greater & much answering the saurus of Rondeletius. [L] This and the next paragraph on the back of Fol. 26 are in different ink and smaller writing though in the same hand, and appear to have been added subsequently. The first paragraph is omitted by Wilkin. A scolopax[65] or sea woodcock of Rondeletius was giuen mee by a seaman of these seas. about 3 inches long & seemes to bee one kind of Acus or needlefish answering the discription of Rondeletius. [65] The Scolopax, or Sea Woodcock, is clearly _Centriscus scolopax_, a very rare fish in the British seas, and it would have been well had Browne given a more precise account of the origin of his specimen. The Acus of Aristotle [_see Note 64_] lesser thinner corticated & sexangular by diuers calld an addercock & somewhat resembling a snake ours more plainly finned then Rondeletius discribeth it. A little corticated fish[66] about [4 inches _crossed out_] 3 or 4 inches long [_several words smeared out_] ours answering that wch is named piscis octangularis by wormius, cataphractus by Schoneueldeus. octagonius versus caput, versus caudam hexagonius. [66] Doubtless the Armed Bull-head, or Pogge, _Agonus cataphractus_. A MS. note in Berkenhout says it was called at Lowestoft a Beetle-head (1769).