Flying fish

Flying-fish

Flying-fish, (lat. esocetus, a branch of the genus esox, established by Linnæus, which includes the pike). until a comparatively recent period this fish was drawn, not as it appears naturally, but more like a herring with the wing of a bird. Foreign examples are more frequent than in England, only two families here having been noticed bearing this device.

Azure, a flying-fish in bend argent, on a chief of the second a rose gules between two torteaux--Henry ROBINSON, Bp. of Carlisle, 1598-1616.

Vert, three flying-fishes in pale argent--GARMSTON, co. Lincoln[granted 1758.]