ROACH. 



399 



ABDOMINAL 

 MALACOPTERYGII. 



CYPRINID&. 



THE ROACH. 



Leuciscus rutilus, CUVIER, Regne An. t. ii. p. 275. 



,, ,, FLEM. Brit. An. p. 188, sp. 65. 



Cyprinus ,, LINN/EUS. BLOCH, pt. i. pi. 2. 



,, Roach, PF.NN. Brit. Zool. vol. iii. p. 482. 



,, ,, DON. Brit. Fish. pi. 07. 



,, ,, ,, JENYNS, Brit. Vert. p. 408. 



THE Roach is said to be abundant in almost all the 

 rivers throughout the temperate parts of Europe, and in this 

 country appears to be a very common fish, inhabiting most of 

 our rivers, but preferring those that are slow in their course, 

 frequenting the deepest parts by day, and by night feeding 

 on the shallows. A specimen sent to me from Scotland by 

 Sir William Jardine, Bart, was rather shorter and deeper 

 than the Roach of the south. The Rev. David Ure, in a 

 statistical account, when describing the Roach in the parish 

 of Killearn, says, " Vast shoals come up from Loch Lomond, 

 and by nets are caught by thousands : their emigrations from 

 the loch, however, are only for the space of three or four 

 days about the end of May. 1 ' 1 Mr. Donovan, in his History 



