SLY SILURUS. 4G1 



ABDOMINAL 



MALACOPTERYCIL SILURIDM. 



THE SLY SILURUS. 



SHEAT FISH. 



Silurns glanis, LINNSUS. 



,, ,, Sheat Fiih, BLOCH, pt. i. pi. 34. 



,, ,, S/v Silurns, STEWART'S Nat. Hist. vol. i. p. 354. 



,, ,, JENVNS, Brit. Vert, p, 421. 



SILURUS. Generic Characters Head large, naked, broad, depressed ; mouth 

 furnished with barbules or cirri ; lips thick, crenated ; eyes small ; body elon- 

 gated, compressed, without scales, covered with a copious mucous secretion. 



DR. FLEMING, in his History of British Animals, notices 

 a remark of Sibbald, leading- to the conclusion that the 

 Silurus glanis may have occurred in his day in some of 

 the Scottish rivers. At the end of his list of river fishes, 

 he adds Silurus sive Glanis. (Scotia Illustrata, p. 25.) 

 A figure and a short description of this fish, derived from 

 Bloch, is therefore introduced here to enable observers to 

 identify a specimen should it again occur. It has, however, 

 been suspected that the supposed SHurus might have been 

 the Burbot. 



