32 The Gudgeon. 



X. 



THE GUDGEON. 

 (Called FUNDULUS by the Romans.') 



PLATE xi. 4. 



[;HE Gudgeon is a leather-mouthed fish, bites 

 freely, and consequently affords capital sport 

 for young Anglers. They spawn three or four 

 times in the summer. Angle for them with 

 a small hook and wasp-grubs, gentils, cads, or a small 

 red worm, which is the best bait, and at the bottom, with 

 or without a float. If you see a shoal in clear water, and 

 can make the water muddy, you can take them quickly. 

 The Gudgeon is considered a fine fish for the table. 

 He chiefly feeds in sandy, gravelly streams, and never 

 rises at a fly. He is one of the best baits for pike. 



SCIENTIFIC DESCRIPTION. 



ORDER IV. Abdominales. Ventral fins on the abdomen, 

 behind the pectoral. 



GENUS CTPRINUS. Cyprinus Gobio. Gudgeon. 

 " Abdominal Malacopterygii. Cyprinidce. 



" Gobio Fluviatilis.WmvGum, p. 264. Q. 8. fig. 4. 



Gudgeon. FLEM. Brit. An. p. 186. sp. 60. 

 CUVIER, Regne An. t. ii. p. 273. 

 " Cyprinus Gobio. LINNAEUS, Block, pt. i. pi. 8. fig. 2. 



Gudgeon. PENN. Brit. Zool. vol. iii. p. 476. 

 DON. Brit. Fish, pi. 71. 



" The species of this submenus have, like those of the last, the 

 dorsal and anal fins short ; are furnished with barbules or cirri about 

 the mouth, but have no strong, bony, serrated ray at the commence- 

 ment of either the dorsal or anal fins. In other respects like Cyprinus. 

 " The fin rays in number are 



"D. 9, P.* 15, V. 8, A. 8, C. 19, upper half 10." 



YARRELL, Brit. Fish, vol. i. p. 325. 7. 



