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THIN-HEADED CARP. 



Cyprinus Leptocephalus. C. capite producto, depresso, maxilla 

 mferiore longiore, pinnis, excepta dorsali, rubris. 



Carp with produced and depressed head, with the lower jaw 

 longer than die upper, and red fins, the dorsal excepted. 



Cyprinus leptocephalus. C. pinna ani radiis novcm, dorsali octo. 

 Lin. Gmel. Pall. it. 3. p. 703. 



SIZE equal to that of C. Labeo : shape resembling 

 that of the Salmo Coregonus, but the head some- 

 what like that of a Pike, having the snout much 

 produced, depressed, and rounded, with the lower 

 jaw longer than the upper : scales middle-sized : 

 fins, except the dorsal, red. Inhabits the rivers of 

 Dauria. 



SUCKING CARP. 



Cyprinus Catas-tomus. C. albidus, corpore elongato y capite sub* 

 tetragono, rostro subproducto, ore lunulato wferiote. 



Whitish Carp, with lengthened body, subtetragonal head, sub- 

 produced snout, and lunulated mouth placed beneath. 



Cyprinus catastomus. C. pinna ani radiis acto, labio imo carun- 

 cula bilobata papillosa, cauda bifida. Forst. Act. Angl. vol. 

 63. p. \58.t.6. 



SHAPE lengthened ; body compressed ; colour 

 whitish ; length from ten to fifteen or sixteen 

 inches : head lengthened, flattened on the top, and 

 marked by rough lines : mouth small, and placed 

 beneath : scales middle-sized : dorsal fin situated 

 on the middle of the back: tail lunated. Native 



