SEA PERCH. Class IV. 



The body is formed fomewhat like that of a fal- 

 mon. 



The color of the back is dufky, tinged with blu£. 



The belly white. In young fifh the fpace above 

 the fide line is marked with fmall black fpots. 



It is efteemed a very delicate fifh. 



126. Sea. Une Perche de mer. Belon, Perca marina. P. pinnis dor* 



163. falibus unitis XV. fpinofis, 



Perca marina. Salvia* , 225. XIV. muticis, corpore litu- 



Rondel. 182. Wil. Icth. 327. ris variegato, Lin, Jyft. 483. 



Raii fyn. pifc* 140. 



*np HIS fpecies is about afoot long: the head 

 •*• large and deformed : eyes great : teeth fmall 

 and numerous. On the head and covers of the 

 gills are ftrong fpines. The dorfal fin is furnifh- 

 ed with fifteen ftrong fpiny rays, and fourteen 

 foft : the pedtoral with eighteen : the ventral with 

 one fpiny, and five foft : the anal with three fpiny, 

 and eight foft: the tail, even at the end : the 

 lateral line parallel to the back. The color red, 

 with a black fpot on the covers of the gills, and 

 fome tranfverfe dufky lines on the fides. 

 It is a fifh held in fome efteem at the table. 



Cernua 



