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TIIK I.AKi; SIIKKI'S.IIKAI) 



Corvina Otcul II — Cimiu. 



This is a very (.•oiumoii ti^li in Lukr llviv, and also below the 

 Falls of Xiaj;ara, where it is readily taken with the hook, though 

 it is in very small repute t\)r its eilihle ipialities, bein;^ eouiniouly 

 reported to be dry, lean, and tasteless. It is in faet very rarely 

 eaten. 



Its colour is blnisli <;rey on the back, darker on the abdomen 

 and the snout. Abdomen and ehin irieyisli whitt-. 



In sluipe it considerably resend)les the preceding genera, 

 (injutfs and Centrarclnis, having a gibbons dorsal outline, and 

 arched profile, the lateral line being also, as in these, concurrent 

 with the curve of the back. The eyes arc large, round and 

 prominent, situated close to the facial outline. The teeth in 

 the jaws arc small, conic, and sharp, but the jjalatc and pliaryn- 

 geal.s arc paved with large rounded solid teeth, \\tll a(la[)ti(l for 

 crushing its hard and shelly prey, such as the fresh-water clams 

 and nniscles, cyclas and [laludina, which constitute its principal 

 subsistence. 



The dorsal fin has nine spinous rays; the second dorsal, one 

 spinous and twenty -eight soft rays ; the pectonils, nineteen soft 

 rnys; the ventrals, one spinous and five soft; the anal, two 

 spinotn and eight soft; the caudal, seventeen rays. Its air- 

 bladder is very large and simple. 



This fish, if I am not greatly in error, is >< ry fretjucntly 



