THE COMPLETE ANGLER. 307 



Fins are named Apodal, or Footless ; such as have the Ventral 

 placed before, or more forward than the Pectoral, are named 

 Jugular ; such as have them immediately under the Pectoral 

 are named Thoracic ; and such as have them behind or beyond 

 the Pectoral are named Abdominal. 



As the ensuing descriptions of the Fish are placed according 

 to their scientific order, and not according to that of their oc- 

 currence in the preceding work, a reference to the chapter and 

 the page in which they are treated of and represented is placed 

 against each of the following Articles. 



ORDER I. 

 APODAL, OR FOOTLESS. 



No Ventral Fins. 

 Genus ANGUILLA, EEL. 



Head smooth. Nostrils tubular. Eyes covered by the common 

 skin. Gill-membrane 10 rayed. Body roundish, smooth, mucous. 

 Dorsal, Caudal, and Anal fins united. Spiracles behind the head or 

 Pectoral fins. 

 A. vulgaris. Common Eel. Chap. xili. page 178. 



Olive-brown Eel, subargenteous beneath, with the lower jaw longer 

 than the upper. 



ORDER II. 

 JUGULAR. 



Ventral Fins before the Pectoral. 

 No example. 



ORDER III. 



THORACIC. 

 Ventral Fins under the Pectoral. 



Genus COTTUS, BULL-HEAD. 



Head broader than the body, spiny. Eyes vertical, and furnished 

 with a nictitating membrane. Gill -membrane 6 rayed. Body (in 

 most species), without scales, attenuated towards the tail. Dorsal 

 fins (in most species), two. 

 C*. Gobio, River Bull- Head. Chap. xvm. pp. 210, 211. 



