254 



PERCH. 



Class IV. 



XXVI. 

 PERCH, 



The edges of the gill-covers ferrated. 

 Seven branchioftegous rays. 

 Body covered with rough fcales. 

 Firfl dorfal fin fpiny j the fecond foft *. 



124. Com- 

 mon. 



U^ftvi Arift. Hift. an. Lib. 



VI. c. 14. 

 Perca Aufonii Mofella, 115. 

 Une Perche de riviere. Belon, 



291. 

 Perca fluviatilis. Rondel, fiu- 



<viat. 196. Gefner pifc. 698. 

 Ein Barfs. Schonevelde, 55. 

 A Perch. Wil lab. 291. Rait 



fyn.pifc. 97. 

 Perca Hneis utrinque fex 



pinms 

 Arted. 



pinnis 

 fecun- 



tranfverfis nigris, 



ventralibus rubris. 



Jynon. 66. 

 Perca fluviatilis. P. 



dorfalibus diftinclis, 



da radiis fedecim. Lin.fyfi, 



481. Gronov. Zooph. No. 



301. 

 Abboree. Faun. Suec. No. 332. 

 Perfchling, Barfchieger. Kram. 



384. WulffBorufs. No. 27. 



THE perch of Arifiotle and Aufonius is the 

 fame with that of the moderns. That men- 

 tioned by Oppian, Pliny, and Athenaus-\, is a 

 fea-fim probably of the Labrus or Sparus kind, 

 being enumerated by them among fome congene- 



* The Rujfe is an exception, having only one dorfal fin, 

 but the fourteen firft rays of it are fpiny. 



f Oppian Halieut, I. 124, Plinii Lib* IX, c. 16. Athenaus 

 Lib. VII. p. 319. 



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