1S4. The Statural Hijlory 



by a winding impulfe of its body, without the help of any other 

 fins but thepinnuU at the tail, by which it fteers its courfe ; and 

 thus far it agrees with the Lampetra fluviatili*. 



28, But though they agree in fome particulars, they differ in 

 as many, our Pride being fireakfd from the top of its back down 

 to the afore-mentioned line at the bottom of its belly, with lines 

 of a diftinft colour from the reft of its body, like the Pricka ma~ 

 rina of Aldrovandus f , whereof the Lampetra is not faid to have 

 any : Befide the two pinnuU of the Lampetra, whereof one 

 ftands on the top of its tail, and the other a little higher on the 

 back, fome fpace interceding ; the Pride has another underneath 

 its tail, joyning with the other from above at the tip, making 

 the whole tail to end like the head of a /pear. Moreover, the 

 eyes of the Pride are very obfcure, and not fuch plain round 

 ones as are given the Lampetra, not only in the defer iption but 

 Cut of Rondeletius \ And though it have a hole in its head, yet it 

 ftands not as Rondeletiu* defcribes it in the Lampetra, juft in the 

 middle between the eyes, but more forward in the extremity of 

 the head, near the upper lip all which may plainly be feen Tab, 

 1 o. Fig. 6, and 7. Whence 'tis eafie to conclude, that either this 

 Fijh has not been defcribed at all, or fo very meanly, that there 

 was almoft a neceffity of giving another, either of which I fup- 

 pofe will excufe this attempt. 



29. Befide the Pride which we think undefcribed, we have 

 another fort of Fijb plentiful in the Cherwell (fcarce ever found 

 in I/is but below the place where the Rivers joyn) that is more 

 certainly fo ; and that a Fijb of the fquammou* kind, which 

 they call a Finfcale, fom what like a Roach, only the belly fins, and 

 the (ingle one at the exit of the excrement, and thofe at the tail 

 are much redder then thofe of a Roach ; it has alfo a full black eye, 

 incompafled with a yellow iris, whereas that of a Roch is red; it 

 is alfo a much deeper and thinner Fifi, but yet neither fo deep or 

 thin as a Bream ; from which alfo it differs not only in the rednefi 

 of its fins, but in that the Jingle fin placed next the exit of its ex- 

 crement, is not continued to the tail as it is in the Bream : Its fins 

 nt the gills are much whiter than the reft, and that upon the back 

 of a dirty bluijb colour: its ft ales, efpecially near the back, are 

 of a greenijh yellow colour, on which from the gills to the tail 



t Aldrtvand. dtPifcH>us } lib. 4.. ca}, 13. 



there 



