*€» BLACK RUFF E. Class W* 



h2$. Black. The Black Fifh. Mr. J ago. Borlafe Cornwall, 27 u 



Tab. XXV. Jig. 8. 



MR. Jago has left fo brief a defcription of 

 this fiJhj that we find difficulty in giving it 

 a proper clafs : it agrees with the Ruffe in the form 

 of the body, and the fmallhefs of the teeth, in 

 having a fingle extenfive fin on the back, a forked 

 tail, and being of that fection of bony fifh, termed 

 Thoracic.-' thele appear by the figure, the teeth 

 excepted. The other characters muft be borrowed 

 from the defcription. 



" It is fmooth, with very fmall thin fcales, fif- 

 " teen inches long, three quarters of an inch 

 " broad ; head and nofe like a peal or trout ; 

 " little mouth ; very fmall teeth, beginning from 

 " the nofe four inches and three quarters, near 

 " fix inches long •, a forked tail ; a large double 

 " noftril. Two taken at Loo, May 26, 1721, in 

 " the Sean, near the more, in fandy ground with 

 " fmall ore weed," 



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