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THE FIJF.SlI-WATKi; FISIIKS oF FFKOPF. 



1). 1: 



Leuciscns pigns (Lac^p.). 



above 7^—8 

 -14., A. 11, V. 1(J, P. 18—19, C. 111. Scales : lal. line 46—49 



below 4. 



In the Italian lakes, especially Como and Lugano, there is a beautiful 

 Leuciscns, highly valued for food, Avhich goes by the name of P'go, a word 

 synonymous with lover, so that the Swiss writers have called it '^ le gardon 

 sralant." The fishermen of Lake Como term it in the autumn Encobia. 



I'^ig. 75. — LEUciscvs piGvs (lackpkd;;). 



This lish came to be described as a distinct species, and distinguished by some 

 writers from the Leuciscns of the Danube, which was termed L. r'irgo, but 



they are, beyond doubt, varieties of the 

 same species, and as the name L. pit/us 

 is the older, we first give some ac- 

 count of the lake variety (Fig. 75). 



The form of the body is elongated, 



with the head shorter and the eye 



smaller than in L. nitilits ; the anal 



fin is longer than high. The head is 



about one-sixth of the length, and the 



fish is about four and a half times as 



long as high. The diameter of the eye is about one-fifth of the length of 



the head, or a little more. The profile rises quickly over the blunt snout 



to the hinder j'art of the heiul. I"'ig. 7(5 shows the phiu-yngeal teeth. 



Fig. 



TEETH Of LEIXISCV; 



