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golden yellow ; and the Ixlly, silviry white ; the d()r>:d and 

 eaudul fins, hrown ; the others, yellowish, tinned with red. 



The bninehial rays are three in nuniiier ; the dorsal tiu-rnys, 

 twelve; the pectorals, twelve; tin- ventrals, seven; the anal, 

 twenty-seven ; and the eandal nineteen. 



A little fish, elosely resendjlinj; this in form, is di-serihed and 

 tiirnri'd in l>r. Richardson's " Northern Zooloj^ry," on the an- 

 thority ot' Lieut. -Colonil Snuth, who took it at the; eonllnenec of 

 the Iliclielicu and St. Lawrence. It is known to the Canadians 

 as La Qiu'schv. In form, it elosely resembles this species; and 

 in colour, the last described ; bnt it has one spiny ray in the 

 dorsal, and one in the anal fin, and a tootlu-d tonj^ne, which 

 wonld seem to divide it from the genns Abramis : while the 

 size of the ainil divides it from the trnc Carps. It has, more- 

 over, small scales, and barbels. 



