SLY SILURUS. 403 



ABDOMINAL 



MALACOPTERYG1I. S1LURWJE. 



THE SLY SILURUS. 



SHEAT FISH. 



Silurus glanis, LINNJEUS. 



,, Sheat Fish, BLOCH, pt. i. pi. 34. 



,, ,, Sly Silnrits, STEWART'S Nat. Hist. vol. i. p. 354. 



,, ,, JENYNS. Syst. Cat. p. 27. 



Generic Characters. Head large, naked, broad, depressed ; mouth furnished 

 with barbules or cirri ; lips thick, crenated ; eyes small ; body elongated, com- 

 pressed, without scales, covered with a copious mucous secretion. 



DR. FLEMING, in his History of British Animals, notices 

 a remark of Sibbald, leading to the conclusion that the 

 Silurus glanis may have occurred in his day in some of 

 the Scottish rivers. At the end of his list of river fishes, 

 he adds Silurus sive Glanis. (Scotia Illustrata, p. 25.) 

 A figure and a short description of this fish, derived 

 from Bloch, is therefore introduced here to enable observers 

 to identify a specimen should it again occur. It has, how- 

 ever, been suspected that the supposed Silurus might have 

 been the Burbot. 



