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CYPRINID.E. 



ABDOMINAL 

 MALACOPTERYGII. 



CYPEINIBJE. 





THE ROACH. 



Leucisciis rutilus, Cuvier, Regne An. t. ii. p. 275. 



„ ,, Flem. Brit. An. p. 188, sp. 65. 



Cyprinus ,, Linn^us. Blocii, pt. i. pi. 2. 



,, ,, Roach, Penn. Brit. Zool. vol. iii. p. 482. 



Don. Brit. Fish. pi. 67. 



The Roach is said to be abundant in abnost all the 

 rivers throughout the temperate parts of Europe, and in this 

 country appears to be a very common fish, inhabiting most of 

 our rivers, but preferring those that are slow in their course, 

 frequenting the deepest parts by day, and by night feeding 

 on the shallows. A specimen sent to me from Scotland by 

 Sir William Jardine, Bart. Avas rather shorter and deeper 

 than the Roach of the South. The Rev. David Ure, in a 

 statistical account, when describing the Roach in the parish 

 of Killearn, says, " Vast shoals come up from Loch Lomond, 

 and by nets are caught by thousands : their emigrations from 

 the loch, however, are only for the space of three or four 

 days about the end of May." Mr. Donovan, in his History 

 of the British Fishes, says, " In the river Thames the finest 



