3.64 CRUCIAN. Class IV. 



Its body is extremely deep, like that of the 

 bream, but much thicker. 

 Pes crip. The head is fmall : the irides yellow, varying in 

 fome almoft to rednefs : the noftrils large : the 

 back vaftly arched, and Hoping off fuddenly to the 

 head and tail : the fcales very large : the fide line 

 very (lightly incurvated. 



The dorfal fin confifts of eleven rays ; the firft 

 very lhort, the fecond very ftrong, and ferrated 

 on each fide. The pectoral fins confift of feven- 

 teen - y the ventral of nine ; the anal of thirteen 

 rays. 



The back is of an olive color : the fides and 

 belly of a gold color, with certain marks of red ; 

 the ventral and anal fins, and the tail, generally 

 of a deep red : the tail forked. 



We believe this to be the fame with the Shal- 

 low of the Cam •, which grows to the length of thir- 

 teen inches. It fpawns in April. 



S7I.Cr.uci- Cyprinus Caraffius. Lin.fyfi. Karaufchen. Meyer an. XI. 58. 

 an. Ruda, et CarufTa. Faun.Suec. Karafs. Gefner pifc. Paralip. 



N. 364. 16. 



THIS fpecies is common in many of the fifh 

 ponds about London, and other parts of the 

 fouth of England-, but I believe is not a native fifh. 



It 



