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. Catejiy, ii, S. &g. 2. — Perca fedlatrixs Z/?z. 486- 130. R.uodsr. 



"P With the upper part of the body brown, varied with large round 

 fpots of yellow : belly and fides ftreaked lengthways with regular 

 narrow lines of white and yellow, dotted : the three firft rays of the 

 anal fin fiiort, fharp, and boney. Length not four inches. 



This fpecies follows the rudders of fhips, acrofs the warm parts of the 

 Atlantic, i-n vaft numbers, and adhere to the bottom, to colIei5t food 

 from the flime ftickina; to it. It is wonderful that fo fmall a fifli Ihould 

 be able to keep up with Ihips in their fwifteft courfe, unlefs, what is pro- 

 bable, they are carried with them. 



Perca pnnftataj Z/». 482. 131, Dottebo 



With an undivided tail : dorfal fins fub-diftinft : body marked 

 v«th dotted lines of black : head filvery. 

 Inhabits Carolina. — Do6lor Garden. Place. 



-Catejhy, ii. 3. fig. 1. — Perca undulata, Lin. 483. 132^ Crokeek 



With the body marked with brown or reddifh brown, in an undu- 

 lated manner : on the gill covers five fhort fpines : tail red, flightly 

 lunated: at the bafe of the peftoral fins a brown Tpot. Sometimes grov/s 

 to the length of three ktt. 



Inhabits the great rivers of Virginia: the largeft are taken in the Piace, 



deep parts of the Chejapeak. Is reckoned tolerably good meat. 



Peraa 



