2 H 



LOCHE, 



Class IV. 



Sect. IV. ABDOMINAL, 



XXXII. 

 L O C H E. 



Eyes in the upper part of the head. 

 Aperture to the gills clofed below. 

 Several beards on the end of the upper jaw 

 Body of almoft an equal thicknefs. 

 One dorfal fin. 



142. Beard- La Loche franche. Bclon, 321. Cobitis tota glabra maculofa, 



corpore fubtereti. Arted. 

 fyhon. 2, 



E», 



Cobitis barbatula. Rondel, 

 fiwviat, 204 



Cobitis fluviatilis barbatula. Cobitis Barbatula. C. cirri 



Gejher pifc. 404. 

 Smerling, Smerle. Schone- 



<vclde, 31. 

 -Loche, or Groundling. WiU 



Icth. 265. Rail Jyn\ pifc. 



124. 



fex capite inermi compreffo. 



Lin. fyjl. 499. Gronov. 



Zooph. No. 202. 

 ■ Gronling. Faun. Suec. No. 341 . 

 Grundel. Kram. 396. Wulff* 



Borufs. No. 40. 



THE loche is found in feveral of our fmall 

 rivers, keeping at the bottom on the gra- 

 vel, and is on that account, in fome places, called 

 the Groundling : it is frequent on the ftream near 

 dme/bury, in Wiltjhire^ where the fportfmen, through 

 frolick, fwallow it down alive in a glafs of white 

 wine. 



The largeft we ever heard of was four inches 

 and three quarters in length, but they feldom arrive 



to that fize. 



The 



