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. Head naked : feveral beards about the mouth. XXXIV. SILURE. 



Branchioftegous rays, iv. xiv. 

 Firft ray of the dorfal or peftoral fin fpiny, dentated backwards. 



LlNN^US. 



Silurus Fells, Lin. 503. ^^^ ^^^^^^ 



C "With four beards on the lower lip : above the mouth, one 00 each 

 * fide : back blueifh : ventral and anal fins red : tail bifid. 

 Inhabits Carolina. — Dodlor Garden. Place. 



S. ca.tu3, Lin. 504. — S. Felis, 503. — Catejby, ii. z^.—Bagrt, alia fpedes, Mttrc- e6j. Cat« 



grwve, 173. 



C With four Ihort beards on the lower jaw, and a very long one iflu- 

 ing from under each eye : the dorfal fin fmall and conic ; the 

 fecond dorfal fin without rays, and fat : all the other fins fmall and red : 

 tail forked and red : head round, and very ugly : mouth and gape 

 very large : teeth fmall : fkin fmooth like that of an eel : upper 

 part of the body dufky : lower, pale flefh color : in form round, thick, 

 and clumfy. Grows to the length of two feet. 



Inhabits the fea and rivers of moft parts o^ North America \ preys on Place. 



all forts of fmall filhes, even thofe of its own kind. In tafte refembles 

 an eel, and is much efteemed. Is a fifh of flow motion. Probably, like 

 the fifhing frog or angler, it tempts the fmall kinds to fport within 

 reach of its great mouth, by the lure of its beards. 



LiNN^us fays this fpecies is found alfo in AJia. 



U S. Cataphraaas, 



