ever k : At the fpawning feafon, all tills artifice feemjs 

 to forfake the animal, and it becomes then fo fioiple, 

 that it fuffers itfelf to be tickled, handled, and caught, 

 by any perfon that will attempt it *. 



This fi(h, when young, is of a dufky colour, growing 

 yellow as it increafes in years : The body is of a thick 

 Ihape ; the fcales remarkably large ; and when the filli 

 is in feafon, of a fine gilded hue. The mouth is fur- 

 rounded by fat, flefhy lips, of a yellow colour j at the 

 angle of the mouth there is a fingle beard, of a yellow 

 colour, and above it another, fliorter, black, and lefs 

 obfervable. The carp has no teeth 5 their office is fup« 

 plied by two fmooth triangular bones, above and below, 

 which are placed at the entrance of the throat, and by 

 a£ling againft each other, comminute the food before it 

 paffes downward. The dorfal fin extends far back, al- 

 mofl; reaching the tail, which is bifurcated. Oppofite to 

 it is the anal fim, the third ray of which, as well as that 

 of the dorfal, is flrong, and armed with fharp teeth, thai 

 point downwards* 



Hie Barhel'}, 



1 HIS fpecies is longer and more tapering in its fhape 



than the perch ; being from a foot to eighteen inches in 



length : In the Nile, it fometimes weighs twenty pounds* 



O o a The 



* Britifli Zoology, gen. 40. 



I BarbHs, Rondel. Cyprinus Barbus, Lin. Syft, 



